Klarinet Archive - Posting 000063.txt from 2002/06

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: [kl] Roll out the barrel....
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 02:15:51 -0400

On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 22:25:36 -0700 (PDT), w7wright@-----.net said:

> I'm looking at a photograph (Jack Brymer, "Clarinet", Fig. 7) whose
> caption is: "6-key clarinet circa 1820". The barrel in this
> photograph is at least 'bulbous', perhaps spherical, on the exterior.
> I'm wondering about the bore inside.
>
> Does your clarinet have such a barrel? If so, is the bore spherical?

I have an three very similar English instruments, a 5-key (square keys),
an 8-key (round keys as in the photo) and another out on loan that I
seem to remember has 9 keys.

None of these instruments has a barrel at all, and I assert further that
neither does the one in the photograph.

Now, what can I possibly mean by that?-)

(Hush, Walter!)

Tony
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