Klarinet Archive - Posting 000750.txt from 2002/03

From: Ed Wojtowicz <ewoj@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bass Stuff
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 18:03:03 -0500

For anyone who may be interested- 1) Selmer has a closer angled neck that
you can get. 2) From my experience with Selmer basses, I have not found this
problem in the register mechanism or extreme stuffiness you describe. This
particular one may have had some adjustment problems.

Ed

> From: The Guy on the Couch <jnohe@-----.Edu>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 15:09:55 -0700 (MST)
> To: Clarinet People <klarinet@-----.org>, Basses
> <bass-clarinet@-----.com>
> Subject: [kl] Bass Stuff
>
> The Selmer has a more classic neck angle, and excellent low notes. It's
> sound is big, but can be pushed to ...hmm, I guess the word might
> be...raucous? It can be pushed too far with great ease. Clarion B, C,
> C#, and D were about 10 cents sharp on this particular example, and
> playing up to altissimo C came easily, and fairly well in tune. Tone
> above altissimo G gets just a little reedy. One BAD quirk of this
> specimen, however, was the tendency for the double register mechanism to
> get confused when hopping around the break involving Bb. Sometimes the
> wrong vent would open, or both would open briefly and then close
> partially, or some other weird malfunction, and the result was a throat Bb
> that was HORRIBLE half the time, or EXTREMELY sharp clarion Cs and such.
> After two days of working my way around this, I learned to finesse the
> register key just right in order to stop this from occuring most of the
> time.

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