Klarinet Archive - Posting 000066.txt from 2002/06

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Roll out the barrel....
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 04:16:23 -0400

On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 00:30:01 -0700 (PDT), w7wright@-----.net said:

> Tony Pay wrote:
>
> > I have three very similar English instruments

[snip]

> > 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?
>
> ....well, I missed my opportunity to ask you for a closer look, didn't
> I? <rueful smile>

Don't understand that...

> I saw Brymer's statement that "Older clarinets did not possess one" [a
> barrel], and so I assume that the enlargments which I see in the
> photograph are foundations for keys, not joints?

...or that. I must be especially thick today. There aren't any keys
where the 'barrel' is.

Certainly the enlargement below the 3rd RH finger in the photograph is a
key foundation and not a joint, as in my Bilton 8-key instrument (but
not on the 6-key Goulding, where there *is* a joint). But the ivory
rings below the mouthpiece and above the top joint both mark the
location of joints, as usual.

Yet, in another sense, there is 'no barrel':-)

Tony
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