Klarinet Archive - Posting 000702.txt from 1998/11

From: "Ed Maurey" <edsshop@-----.ca>
Subj: [kl] Fw: [kl] Re: Eb intonation range
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 07:51:14 -0500

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> From: Ed Maurey <edsshop@-----.ca>
> To: GrabnerWG@-----.com
> Subject: Re: [kl] Re: Eb intonation range
> Date: Wednesday, November 18, 1998 5:37 PM
>
> As the hone rotates you move it back and forth thru the bore. The sand
> paper should be about 1.5" wide. To efficiently remove wood I'd start
with
> 240 grit. I finish with 400. I run the hone in a small lathe at 1000
RPM.
>
> You'll want to enlarge the area from just below the F# hole to 3/8" from
> the end of the joint. Don't enlarge the bore at the end because you
don't
> want to disturb the "choke" at the bell. Blow the saw dust out of the
tone
> hole [ it will give a false flatness] and check the pitch of the low
notes
> and their twelfths. The pitch will gradually rise in the low register.
If
> it starts to rise in the clainet register: stop, you've achieved as much
> spreading ot the twelfth as possible by bore enlargement. My guess is
> you'll enlarge the bore no more than .010" on an Eb.
>
> The F-C interval can be enlarged by under cutting the bottom tone hole.
> Obviously, the E-B interval is immune to this treatment.
>
> Ed Maurey
> > From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
> > To: edsshop@-----.ca
> > Subject: Re: [kl] Re: Eb intonation range
> > Date: Wednesday, November 18, 1998 12:57 PM
> >
> > BTW means...By the way
> >
> > How do you accomplish a taper? Or keep true an existing taper?

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