Klarinet Archive - Posting 000669.txt from 2000/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Eb on bell
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 18:48:04 -0400

At 01:56 PM 5/13/2000 -0700, Gary Van Cott wrote:
>And to continue Dan's thought, there is still another choice. My Buffet
>alto clarinet has the low Eb opening on the body on the instrument and has
>a vent hole (with no keywork) on the bell. (If you cover the vent hole,
>the instrument sounds a low D.) I believe that this results in a low Eb
>with a similar timbre to the notes above it, but I don't know if that was
>the motivation for this design.
>
The reason for it is, as you have discovered, to keep the Eb from sounding
way flat. It shortens the effective length of the bell. The same
principle is applied to cheap student oboes. The ones that have NO low Bb
key on the bell have vent holes to replace the normally open Bb hole or it
will throw off the low B.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

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