Klarinet Archive - Posting 000372.txt from 2003/11

From: "James Hobby" <jhobby@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Buffet with articulated C#/G#
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:57:59 -0500

It's hard to tell from the photo what it's supposed to do, but your ring is
not an articulated C#/G#. It may be a part of one. The articulated key has
a hole through the tenon for the C#/G#, plus a separate lever to operate it
with the right hand. The articularted C#/G# is a part of the Boehm system,
but I've never heard a proper definition for instruments that have bits of
the extra. For a full system, in addition to this key, there is an
alternate Eb/Ab key on the left side, and a low Eb/Bb key. (I think I left
one out, but can't think, right now, what it is.) The extra keys are often
very beneficial.

Jim Hobby

>Several months ago I purchased a 1926 Bb Buffet which (I believe) is
>referred to as having an articulated C#/G#. I am not certain of the
>terminology, but I have a picture of this clarinet below.
>
>http://www.eldobrghm.com/clarinet/images/1926_buffet.jpg
>
>It has a ring on L3 finger which operates a small tone hole pad just above
>and to the it's right. I have a couple of questions on it,]:
>
>1. What is supposed to happen mechanically?
>2. What is the mechanical difference between this and a standard Boehm?
>3. Under what conditions will this prove to be beneficial?

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