Klarinet Archive - Posting 001102.txt from 2003/04

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fox Basset Horns
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:47:18 -0400

It has a peg, but the holes are not to make it lighter. It is an
acoustical phenomenon that I neither understand nor want to. But the
purpose is to create a very dramatic sound character to the low notes.

Yes it is funny looking, but so were some of my girlfriends in my youth.
That is not a reason to reject them.

Dan

Will Casada wrote:
> Sounds like it must be pretty funny looking. Do you have a picture? Is
> there a floor peg that goes through one of the holes or do you hold it
> with your thumb? It seems like it would be pretty heavy; a giant
> soprano clarinet(maybe the holes in the bell are to make up for the
> extra weight of a bigger horn:}.
>
>
> Will
>
>
>
>
>> From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
>> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>> To: klarinet@-----.org
>> Subject: Re: [kl] Fox Basset Horns
>> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:35:10 -0700
>>
>> It is not bent. In fact it is quite similar to a clarinet bell except
>> that it has lattice holes in it.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> Matthew Lloyd wrote:
>>
>>> But the Selmer has a metal crook/bell as opposed to the Fox that is all
>>> wood?
>>>
>>> How on earth do you make a bent barrel in wood?
>>>
>>> Matthew
>>
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