Klarinet Archive - Posting 000416.txt from 2003/06

From: "Resurgere Jones" <resurgereweb@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] offset tone holes/keys
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:16:11 -0400

The danger in posing a question like this is that I might get an answer, but
what difference does it make acoustically where a tone hole is placed on the
circumference of a horn body, as long as it's the right size, shape, and
distance down the pipe?

Yamaha's 221 student bass clarinet has a slightly offset LH low register C
key - same principle as the flute or sax G key (4th finger). Makes a big
difference when trying to manipulate the lower register touchpieces, esp. LH
F/C key. Wish I could have bought it - alas, I'm currently learning the
ropes on a Bundy BC. Plays okay for a student horn, but that offset makes a
difference.

>From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Needle springs
>Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:21:00 -0400
>
>At 08:45 AM 6/13/2003 -0500, Mark Thiel wrote:
>>Oooooh, nice. How long till I can have a carbon composite _clarinet_ with
>>titanium keys? --- And how long till I can afford it? I clicked on
>>"pricelist" and it started a mail message -- if you have to ask you can't
>>afford it. It's been a while since I've had a flute in my hands, but
>>wouldn't a flute with the pads as strictly in a row as this be an
>>ergonomic
>>disaster?
>
>"In-line" keys have been the norm in intermediate and pro flutes for some
>time, the offset-G design being relegated to student-flute status. More
>and more lately, however, the offset-G is making a return to the upper
>echelons of flute-dom. Apparently, the supposed sonic benefits of having
>the holes all in a row have been discovered to be not so great as the
>ergonomic advantage of keywork that does not cramp you hands! Note that
>Selmer Paris figured this out back in the late 1940's when they designed
>their Super Balanced Action saxophones (lower stack offset from upper
>stack). It does not seem to have caused any significant sonic problems in
>their line, and now EVERYBODY does it that way.
>
>
>
>Bill Hausmann
>
>If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!
>
>
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