Klarinet Archive - Posting 000395.txt from 1998/02

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Dis/Advantages to the Double Neck
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 13:10:29 -0500

On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Loh Tzu Liang wrote:
Question to be answered: Is there any true advantage? Do they make the
horn sound better?
> >Not in my experience. They are often angled up just a hair more than
> >single necks. Keep reading for my factpinions on neck angle.

> >I'm with you all the way there as well. I play on either set up just
> >fine, with no real change in tone quality. To be honest, where it's most
> >comfortable w/me is somewhere in between (I really can't stand to play on
> >the Bay necks anyway). Having it angled up just a hair (like, two degree,
> >or so) helps me tongue tip to tip easier, but that's the ONLY
> >advantadge/difference I find.

These comments may be true with a Selmer neck......depending on model, but
it is too general a comment to really speak for 1 pc vs. 2 pc. necks. The
Buffet 2 pc necks sold with the Prestige are much, much more vertically
angled than the old versions, as well as significiantly more angled than
other 2 pc necks. They almost achieve a soprano clarinet angle. My Model
33 Selmer (and the Model 37 Selmer that I tried three months ago) didn't
have a neck as angled as the Buffet.

Roger Garrett
IWU