Klarinet Archive - Posting 000079.txt from 1998/11

From: "edsshop" <edsshop@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] re:Tube - other Clarinets
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 07:48:41 -0500

Larry,
How's your new tube working? You're lucky that the new key fit OK.
Ed Maurey

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From: Larry Paikin <larrypaikin@-----.net>
Date: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 12:27 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] re:Tube - other Clarinets

>I installed it on my 1956 Couesnon
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>David C. Blumberg wrote:
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>> Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 17:20:15 -0400
>> To: <klarinet @-----.org>
>> From: "edsshop" <edsshop@-----.ca>
>> Subject: Fw: The Galper register tube and key
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>> The Galper register tube sounds like a wonderful, effective, ingenious =
>> and SIMPLE invention. But, anybody who thinks it could simply be put on =
>> any instrument other than a Buffet R-13 Bb is dreaming. Even a Buffet =
>> R-13 A clarinet couldn't accept it. The key would be too short. The =
>> mounting posts would be in the wrong place. And, perhaps, the tube, =
>> itself, would be slightly inappropriate. To put it on another MAKE of =
>> instrument would be physically impossible. Everything would have to be =
>> redesigned. However, I doubt if it would be particularly difficult task =
>> if one thoroughly understood Abe's design principles.
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>> I'll take a shot at this. The tube can, and does fit other some other
>> Clarinets. Which ones, I am not sure, but Abe has used it very
succcesfully
>> on some Selmers too. The principle is that the register tube must be
longer
>> for the Bb to sound good. This tube is about 40% longer then the standard
>> tube. The extra length is on the outside of the clarinet (but doesn't
look
>> bad at all), and requires a key that curves for it to feel the same to
the
>> player. See the web page for the pictures.
>> David Blumberg
>> reedman@-----.com
>> http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/Music/Blumberg.html
>> http://members.aol.com/cwindz/galper.html
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