Klarinet Archive - Posting 000228.txt from 2001/06

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] B&H 1010s
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 23:55:53 -0400

Can anyone the history behind these bore variations, and why the modern trend is towards smaller bores? I believe Jack Brymer usually played on 1010s when I heard him, and to my ear made a wonderful sound. Is bore size a factor of sound quality at all?
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Walter says:

Lee Gibson's book "Clarinet Acoustics" deals with these issues in great depth. Far to comprehensive to be dealt with here in a two paragraph post.

Gibson's conclusion is that large bore clarinets like these simply could not be played in tune with themselves. Therefore, they became obsolete when the Buffet R-13 appeared.

His book is fascinating, and gives tremendous amounts of good information. It also raises as many questions as it answers.

Walter Grabner
www.clarinetxpress.com

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