Klarinet Archive - Posting 001206.txt from 2000/12

From: "Daniel Stover" <kasparguy@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Eb Lever
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 01:00:57 -0500

Not all bass clarinets come with it standard... maybe new student models
come with them. but some of my students old Noblets and Bundys don't have
it.

My partner has an old Buffet from the 30's, solid body, with articulated G#,
third ring on the C/G tone hole, and the alt. Eb lever. As i understand,
the old Buffet's that had a solid body usually came with atleast the Eb
lever. But i may be wrong.

Daniel

----Original Message Follows----
From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] Eb Lever
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 21:50:53 -0800 (PST)

--- Forrest Davie <mcpusc@-----.com> wrote:

> I was browsing a web site selling clarinets and they
> referred to a model as "the only student clarinet with
> an Eb lever". What does this refer to? my clarinet
> (not very good) has Eb keys. Whats the deifference?

They were likely referring to an auxiliary left-hand pinky Ab/Eb,
located between (rising immediately above) the low E/clarion B and
low F#/clarion C# keys. This extra key is offered typically only
on the higher-end models of a given maker's line of clarinets. All
bass clarinets come with this "extra" key as a standard feature.

Does anybody know why it took so long for somebody to include it on a
soprano clarinet model? Was the R-13 Prestige the first Buffet model
to include it? Was the Concerto the first for Leblanc?

-- Neil

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