Klarinet Archive - Posting 000590.txt from 2004/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Meaning of undercut tone holes?
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:24:46 -0500

At 08:32 AM 11/20/2004 -0500, you wrote:

>Bill Hausmann wrote,
> >If you have ever seen a countersunk hole for a
> >screw, that is pretty much what they do inside
> >the bore with the tone holes. They cut an
> >outward-tapered entry into the bore from the
> >straight-walled tone hole. Undercutting is not
> >required on older-design, straight, large-bore
> >clarinets, but must be done on the smaller-bore,
> >polycylindrical instruments.
>
>What's the likely result if somebody does undercut the tone holes on an
>old, wide-bore clarinet? Recently I had an e-mail from the original owner
>of a Boosey & Hawkes clarinet. I've forgotten the model name, but he said
>that it was a professional-quality clarinet and that he bought it new,
>shortly after the end of WWII. He told me that he undercut the tone holes
>himself in the 1970s, after reading that "all" the new clarinets had
>undercut tone holes. He wanted to know what the clarinet was worth, before
>he listed it on eBay. I told him truthfully that I didn't know.

My GUESS would be that the guy completely destroyed the horn, but only
playing will really tell. Intonation is probably a mess.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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