Klarinet Archive - Posting 000236.txt from 2004/03
From: Allen Levin <alevin@------.net> Subj: RE: [kl] reasons for basset clarinets Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:20:09 -0500
All of the Wurlitzer Reform-Boehm instruments - basset or not - have the
resonance hole through the bell and (I think) lower tenon.
At 08:46 AM 3/4/04 +0100, you wrote:
>You are right with respect to the elongated joint. Fritz Wurlitzer and other
>german makers are making their bassethorns (and bass clarinets) already for
>more then 60 years with such an extra length of wood on the lower joint with
>an added keyless resonance hole! It gives indeed a significant improvement
>of the sound character. I'm playing such a bassethorn from Fritz Wurlitzer.
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