Klarinet Archive - Posting 000959.txt from 1998/09

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset clarinet lower joint
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 14:29:38 -0400

On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Tony Pay wrote:
> Actually, I once asked someone at Buffet a question about buying
> something non-standard, and he said, "*Anything* is possible." So
> the way to find out whether they'll sell you just a bottom joint, and
> what the price would be, is (unsurprisingly:-) to ask them.
>
> With regard to using the normal A top joint with the basset bottom
> joint, I thought he said that someone else found their normal A joint
> worked better? And that that person knew other people who found so too?

At the ClarinetFest, I tried the joint on my A.....didn't work. The upper
joint is different. Perhaps there are a couple of different ones out
there.......Francois told me it would not work.....but perhaps I misheard
him......

You there Francois?

Roger Garrett
IWU

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