Klarinet Archive - Posting 001061.txt from 2003/04

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] a clarinet (!) question
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:46:37 -0400

At 08:22 PM 4/22/2003 -0400, Dee D. Flint wrote:
> >(Bill Hausmann wrote:)
> > Placing the register key on top keeps it out of the moisture path. The
> > long register key tube is not required. My Carl Fischer A clarinet with
> > WAOK has a pretty decent-sounding throat Bb. One potential downside is
> > that it is relatively easy to bend the key out of alignment. Maybe that
>is
> > why they switched?
>
>It might have also been a strength issue. On those instruments with wrap
>around register keys, a fair percentage seem to have been broken.

Which is, of course, what happens when you have bent it out of alignment
and bent it back one too many times!

Bill Hausmann

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

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