Klarinet Archive - Posting 000105.txt from 2000/05

From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Bells & Whistles
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 06:15:40 -0400

Topper writes:

<<<I am also sure that the the bottom bell ring does more than keep the wood
from splitting.>>>

Aside from Don Longacre's rehearsal antics, there apparently is an
acoustical difference in the bell ring. Rosario Mazzeo and his posse of
students regularly lopped the bell rings off their horns to get a different,
presumably "better" sounding B natural. Selmer even sold Mazzeo models with
these truncated bells.

Now . . I have no idea if it's the metal ring, or just the shortening of the
bell you get when chopping it off that made the difference, but I have tried
Mazzeo-lopped bells and they do indeed sound as bit different. Not enough
for me to take a saw to my own clarinets, mind you. They were the gadget du
jour at one time, however.

kjf

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