Klarinet Archive - Posting 001321.txt from 1998/10

From: Gary Van Cott<vcis@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Abe Galper's Register Vent & Key
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 03:23:53 -0500

This key improves the middle B natural as well as the Bb? It has always
been the B naturals that drove me crazy.

Gary
Las Vegas, NV

CEField@-----.com on 10/29/98 11:49:41 AM
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Subject: [kl] Abe Galper's Register Vent & Key

After hedging for several months, I recently purchased Abe Galper's new
invention: a replacement register vent and key for my Buffet R13 clarinet.

The installation was a snap and the results phenomenal. No more stuffy
pinch
Bb! No more hesitation at the break! I've been playing clarinet for nearly
40
years. Never has it been this easy or this much fun. I don't fret now when
I
have a Bb long tone or a passage with a slew of third line B-naturals. (The
person who writes that kind of music for clarinet is the same sadist who
gives
oboists and sax players lots of low B-flats!)

Abe and David Blumberg (his exclusive U.S. Contact) are WAY TOO HUMBLE
about
this innovation. That is probably why you haven't heard much about it.

Feeling that others might want to benefit as I have, I took it upon myself
to
create a Web page describing the device and explaining how I installed
mine. I
will update the page with more information as it becomes available. At the
very least, I would suggest that you visit the page to see what the
replacement vent and key look like. They do look "odd" at first, but the
system is completely transparent to the musician. In other words, your
clarinet feels exactly as it did before. It just plays better...or, rather,
it
helps YOU play better ;-)

The page is at:

http://members.aol.com/cwindz/galper.html

Cindy Field
Unofficial President of the Abe Galper Fan Club Internationale

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