Klarinet Archive - Posting 000371.txt from 2000/08

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Opposite register vent
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 07:42:12 -0400

My Buffet B flat thing dates from 1897 and that has the register key
hole at the
back, as, I suspect, most "Boehm" system clars have had.
Roger S>

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Dee D. Hays wrote:

> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 06:11:06 -0400
> From: Dee D. Hays <deehays@-----.net>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Opposite register vent
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Wright" <Bilwright@-----.net>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 1:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [kl] Opposite register vent
>
>
> > <><> 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.
> >
>
> Just a bit of info. While his Buffet was no doubt a professional model, it
> would not have been an R-13. The R-13 was not introduced until the 1950s.
> Note that there was a discussion on the bulletin board (you can do a search
> there and read the entire thread) about some marketing names that were used
> by the importer in the US before that time. They were NOT Buffet
> designations but those of the importer. These designations were names such
> as R16, etc and included a name such as R13. BUT this was not the
> polycylindrical R-13 that Buffet developed, named, and sold starting in the
> 1950s.
>
> Dee Hays
>
>
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