Klarinet Archive - Posting 000120.txt from 2000/02

From: Anne Bell <bell@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Making clarinets
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 23:23:13 -0500

Walter,
There's currently a billet of cherry at work with my husband waiting to
become that very clarinet. I don't currently have access to all the cool
tools that he does so he volunteered to do the boring and turning, leaving
me with the fun job of drilling tone holes and tuning. Let me know if you
get started. BTW, it would be a great way to justify that little lathe
that you mentioned to put grooves in your mouthpiece....
Best Wishes,
Anne

At 10:21 AM 2/2/00 EST, you wrote:
>In my recent prowl through the music stacks of the Evanston Public
Library, I
>came across a very interesting little book.
>
>It is titled "The Amateur Wind Instrument Maker" by a gentleman named Trevor
>Robinson.
>
>It contains instructions on making all sorts of antique woodwind
instruments,
>including recorders, shawms, krummhorns, ........and a Denner style
clarinet,
>complete with two keys (you get throat Bb, or B natural, but not both).
>
>I am somehow intrigued with the possibility of making such a clarinet,
>possibly from coco-bolo, or rosewood (boxwood, if I could even get it,
would >probably warp devastatingly in this yucky Chicago climate).My
question is: is there anyone on the list who has done this, or anything
>similar? I would love to correspond........
>
>
> Walter Grabner

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