Klarinet Archive - Posting 000106.txt from 2003/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] buffet full-boehm clarinet-more info
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 19:40:25 -0500

At 09:37 AM 1/6/2003 -0500, Albert Hunt wrote:
>The Buffet full-boehm Bb clarinet I'm describing does not have a low Eb key.
>The lower joint is longer because the c#/g# tone hole is on the lower joint.
>
>What do you think about the tone and intonation of the full-Boehm compared
>to the R-13? Why didn't the horn catch on with clarinetists--especially the
>ones with the low Eb key?

Strictly speaking, without the low Eb, yours is not a full-Boehm clarinet,
although, like my BT, it has the other extra bells and whistles. As was
mentioned before, the low Eb on a Bb horn allows you to transpose and play
music for the A clarinet without "falling off the bottom." Why they also
put them on A clarinets occasionally is beyond me. The articulated C#/G#
key actually improves those notes considerably, and makes trilling them a
breeze, but apparently denies some other alternate fingerings.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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