Klarinet Archive - Posting 001116.txt from 2003/04

From: "Keith" <100012.1302@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Fox Basset Horns
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:47:32 -0400

I don't have my digital camera here, but I'll send a pic to anyone
interested when I get home.

Barrel: this is bent through about 30 degrees. It is made of a thin
brass liner surrounded by two turned pieces of wood, upper barrel and
lower barrel, joined extremely skilfully at the angle. I'm a pretty
competent wood and metalworker myself and I shudder at the degree of
skill required - indeed, Steve says they are very time-consuming to make
- though the liner does ease the difficulty slightly.

The angle is such that the body of the instrument is vertical when
playing. The bell is like a larger clarinet bell but with a number of
holes (about 12 holes 6 mm diameter) for resonance - not for lightening.
This shape has been used before in history.

The instrument is supported by a peg that does a double kink around the
bell. This works very well. As for the clarinet cowboy who said it must
look funny .... Dan, will you hold him while I hit him?? They look
gorgeous!

You can also make a bent bell in wood - Henrik Bok has one for his bass
- essentially by carving it in two parts and glueing together. The
serpent and some old bass clarinets were made like this.

Keith

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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:36:54 +0100
From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@-----.uk>
Subject: RE: [kl] Fox Basset Horns
Message-ID: <000001c309a5$ccfea480$62339fd4@Notebook>

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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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:44:01 -0400
From: "Will Casada" <clarinetcowboy@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] Fox Basset Horns
Message-ID: <Sea1-F1083DcUyLbB7q0000c31a@-----.com>

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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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:46:09 +0100
From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@-----.uk>
Subject: RE: [kl] Fox Basset Horns
Message-ID: <000101c309b7$daf23f40$62339fd4@Notebook>

So the whole instrument is straight? Is there a picture of one anywhere
online?

Matthew

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