Klarinet Archive - Posting 000366.txt from 2000/08

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Opposite register vent
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 01:45:24 -0400

<><> Bill Hausmann wrote:
I have an old Carl Fischer A clarinet with the wrap-around octave key

By purest coincidence, tonight I sat next to a gentleman whose
clarinet was an old R13, and it had the same wrap-around register key
(plus rings on all six holes). He told me that he bought it as a used
instrument in the 1940s, and he believed that it may have been 20-40
years old at the time.
I asked him how it played compared to a modern clarinet. He
shrugged and said, "This is the only clarinet that I've ever played, so
I don't have anything to compare it with."
When we were talking, I hadn't seen the comments here about
durability; but I imagine that a wrap-around key would be hard to come
by these days if it broke.

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