Klarinet Archive - Posting 000856.txt from 1998/07

From: Stan Elias <elias1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Undercutting
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:35:04 -0400

I was in the market for an A clarinet a few years ago and I was offered an R-13,
ostensibly played professionally, and when I looked down the bore there appeared
to be small strips of tape coming out of the tone holes and running lengthwise up
or down the bore for a fraction of an inch. The seller told me that the tape was
part of an adjustment scheme by which each note is tuned for tone and intonation.
The system, he said, involves not only undercutting the tone holes, but using the
tape to effectively move them up or down the bore as needed. Can anyone further
enlighten me or was this guy selling smoke? (I didn't buy the horn.) TIA
Stan Elias

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