Klarinet Archive - Posting 000337.txt from 2004/09

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Pair of metal clarinets for sale on E-bay. Said to beSterling.
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:34:34 -0400

The hole drilled through the tenon of the upper joint is part of
the design that makes the articulated f-sharp/g-sharp functional.
So when one fingers the g-sharp just above the staff, depressing
the middle hole of the three on the lower joing allows an f-sharp
trill, just the thing one looks for in the Bizet Carmen Dragoons
March (or some such title). Of course it also works with an f to
g-sharp, e to g-sharp, and even a tremulo d to g-sharp, but they
don't come up much as far as I remember. I have a pair of such
full Boehm clarinets (that I am going to sell shortly on ebay)
and, unlike the metal clarinets just sold, both of mine go down
not only to low E-flat, but to low D (though there is a trade
off -- if you want low e-flat, you can't have low d, and if you
want low d, you can't have low e-flat).

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Wolman [mailto:kwolman@-----.com]
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 6:00 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Pair of metal clarinets for sale on E-bay. Said
to
beSterling.

Sue Raycraft wrote:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3747761658
>
>
> those are cool.
> Sue

Gorgeous things. They went for quite a bit of change, didn't
they? Two
thousand pounds is not pocket change. I hope they play like they
look

I'm sure someone will tell me to read back in the archives, but
I'll ask
anyway--what's with the holes drilled through the tenons? What
purpose?

Ken
--
Kenneth Wolman
Proposal Development Department
Room SW334
Sarnoff Corporation
609-734-2538

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