Klarinet Archive - Posting 000647.txt from 1999/01

From: "Doug Sears" <dsears@-----.org>
Subj: [kl] Benade's NX clarinet
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 18:47:15 -0500

I've been reading the articles in The Clarinet and in The Galpin Society
Journal about Arthur Benade's NX clarinet design, and I find the idea very
exciting. It represents a fairly radical change in design that addresses
(just as one example) many of the criticisms of the R13 that Tom Ridenour
just mentioned.

A working prototype was supposedly going to be demonstrated at
Clarinetfest '94 in Chicago. Does anyone who was there know anything about
that? What has happened since then? Have any more prototypes been made? Is
anyone working on commercial production? I'd love to try one out or at
least hear from someone who has.

Here are the references:

Arthur H. Benade, Benade's NX clarinet: its genesis,
The Clarinet, Feb./Mar. 1994, pp. 46-48

George Jameson, Benade's NX clarinet: mechanical and other considerations,
The Clarinet, May/June 1994, pp. 32-33.

Arthur H. Benade & Douglas H. Keefe, The physics of a new clarinet design,
The Galpin Society Journal, vol. 49 (Mar. '96) pp. 113-142

--Doug
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Doug Sears dsears@-----.org/~dsears

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