Klarinet Archive - Posting 000713.txt from 1998/11

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Change to conical octave key
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 07:51:25 -0500

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Hiroshi Nagatsuma wrote:

> I bought a 32 pages booklet "Clarinet MasterClasses"from Wind Player
> Magazine. In this booklet a repair professional, an immigrant from USSR,
> advised to change octave key from cylindrical one to conical one to improve
> throat tone.I interpreted the 'key' seem to mean the cylinder beneath the
> left hand thumb key which peretrates the bore. I never heard of this method
> and Japanese repair people do not seem to know it either.I wondered this is
> a special method of his own.Is this a usual method in U.S.?
> Sorry, I am a new comer to this page and made many questions I have kept.
>
>

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