Klarinet Archive - Posting 000312.txt from 1999/01

From: Note Staff Unlimited <notestaff@-----.ch>
Subj: [kl] vocal tract effects (hole in bell)
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 09:43:47 -0500

Tony Pay schrieb:

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> So, you may have been kidding, but I had a small hole drilled through
> the bell and the tenon. If you need a non-flat low E (I did, on that
> occasion), you rotate the bell so that the two holes coincide, if you
> have time. (If you don't have time, you don't do it!) For playing
> normally, the bell position is such that the two holes don't line up, so
> the instrument behaves as it did originally.
>
> Some German clarinets have a key to open and close such a hole.
>
> Tony
> --
> _________ Tony Pay

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I have a hole in my bell (Wurlitzer Reform-Boehm but the new ones don't any
more). When I had a key made for it, we made a different hole for that and
filled the original hole in. It sounded much worse so we drilled another
hole. Now I have two holes - one covered by a key and one which always stays
open. It's no big deal. Drill or fill. I think it's worth trying.

David
David Glenn
notestaff@-----.ch

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