Klarinet Archive - Posting 001125.txt from 2003/04

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bent barrel in wood?
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:47:41 -0400

Bent whole instruments used to be made in wood this way - serpents, "oboi di caccia" and the earliest basset horns.
Roger S.

In message <20030423.220953.49@-----.org writes:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:36:54 +0100, Matthew@-----.uk said:
>
> > How on earth do you make a bent barrel in wood?
>
> Daniel Bangham found a way to turn the barrel for my period basset
> clarinet, using two axes of rotation and clever strategy on an initially
> largish piece of boxwood; but the easy way is to take an ordinary barrel
> and cut it in two transversely through the middle at a slight angle.
>
> You then rotate one of the pieces through 180 degrees, and stick the two
> of them back together, after slightly building up and modifying the cut
> edges of the bore so that the join is smoother.
>
> Worth doing on an extended instrument, even the commercial basset
> clarinets.
>
> Tony
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