Klarinet Archive - Posting 000129.txt from 2000/11

From: "Ed & Carol Maurey" <edsshop@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Source of C Clarinet
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 18:05:27 -0500

Michael, I have a similar C Clarinet tale. My present C clarinet is a 1964
Selmer Series 9. It, too, is really quite respectable not because Selmer
did such a great job on it but because I did lots of surgery . Any note
below middle C was grossly flat. I increased the minimum bore from .570" to
.580" (about the diameter of your Noblet)... that cured that problem very
nicely. The throat tones were insanely sharp. I scrounged an old Series 9
Bb barrel and shortened it til it was about a quarter inch longer than the
original barrel. The throat tones fell into place. I eventually modified
the register vent and fitted the bottom joint with a Bb bell, to boot!
Selmer DID do a nice job on the key work and I only had to mess with a
couple of tone holes.

Ed Maurey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subject: Re: [kl] Source of C Clarinet

> Here is a parallel, but happier, story.
> I have been playing the same C clarinet since
> 1973. It is a Noblet. The Noblet mouthpiece
> supplied was not good, so after shortening
> the mp tenon joint of my Bb mouthpiece
> (a Boosey 926) which I use on the R13s,
> it then played flat around the throat area.
> I elected to stay with the good mouthpiece.
> I took the clarinet to old George Howarth
> (then 70-80 years old) in Montpelier Grove,
> Kentish Town, London NW5.
> I asked if he could tune it by changing the size holes
> and undercutting, while I waited. He agreed.
> He made four journeys to and from the workshop
> before it was right. It was all guesswork,
> but I did not know it then. People frequently say to me
> "Oh! Is that what a C clarinet should sound like?
> 'Never heard one that played in tune before!"
>
> Mike Bryant
>
> Ed Maurey wrote/02 November 2000 12:38/Source of C Clarinet
>
>
> >Ralph Morgan's "C clarinet mouthpieces" border on fraud. They are nothing
> >more than his standard Bb mouthpiece with a 1.5 mm bore length reduction.
> >There is no difference in its bore, taper or tone chamber. There is very
> >little difference in intonation. The sample I tried was nearly
unblowable
> >and a colassal "squeeker!"
> >
> >Ed Maurey
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Glenn Kantor" <GKANTOR@-----.com>
> >To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> >Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 2:51 PM
> >Subject: Re: [kl] Source of C Clarinet
> >
> >
> >With a well made C clarinet mouthpiece (available from numerous sources,
> >ex:Ralph Morgan) so called "intonation problems" should not exist- no
more
> >than on any other clarinet....
> >
> >
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