Klarinet Archive - Posting 000215.txt from 2002/04

From: CBA <clarinet10001@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Another type of slide
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 02:27:01 -0500

Yea! Send pics! Put it to my home address, as the
Klarinet list has a filter for e-mails with large
files, and also for picture content.

That's great! Since you have that, we could all get
those keys copied, if you sent your clarinet for maybe
a week to someone who makes keys, so they could get an
idea of the process used for the keys' action
<evilgrin>.

Kelly Abraham
Woodwinds - New York City
--- Jim Hobby <jhobby@-----.net> wrote:
> The answer to your question is ... yes! <g>
>
> My instruments have the extra rings and the
> articulation that closes the G#
> when a right hand ring is pressed. I also have a
> G#/C# >key< on the right
> lower joint. Over the weekend, I'll try to take a
> picture of them and send
> it to you. I don't know how well a digital pic will
> come out, but I'll try.
>
> I'm surprised. All these years, I thought I just
> had extra keys that I had
> wanted. I realized that most US bought clarinets
> don't have them, but I
> didn't know they were that unusual.
>
> Jim
>
> >From: CBA <clarinet10001@-----.com>
> >
> >Jim,
> >
> >Maybe *I* am missing something. You were talking
> about
> >an articulated G#/C#, right? I was talking about an
> >extra lever for the right hand to access the G#/C#
> key
> >mechanism in addition to the left hand lever that
> is
> >standard. Are we talking about the same thing? I'd
> be
> >really interested, as I haven't seen this dual
> >mechanism on the clarinet, but only on oboe and
> >english horn. The articulated G# I am familiar with
> on
> >clarinet is like the saxophone mechanism to close
> the
> >G#/C# key while the right hand fingers are down,
> even
> >if you are holding the G# lever down.
> >
> >Tell me if I'm off...and if I am, I'd LOVE to see
> your
> >clarinets sometime!
>
>
>
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