Klarinet Archive - Posting 000374.txt from 2004/12

From: "Dee Flint" <deeflint01@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: metal clarinets
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:35:12 -0500


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From: "DWH" <dwh46@-----.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Re: metal clarinets

>I wonder if any of you can answer a question about the BT clarinets for me.
> I picked up one about three years ago thanks to Henry Cuesta. He was in
> town
> for a concert and stopped in our shop one morning looking for BT's and
> mouthpieces. The two BT's he was carrying at the time were pinned
> everywhere
> you can imagine, but after playing one of his I was hooked, and he was
> kind
> enough to write and call me a month later when he had found one for me.
>
> My question concerns the bore. Mine dates pre-occupation, and his were
> even
> older. We measured the bore of his two at his request, and they were .593.
> Mine measures .594, and I've had the chance to check a couple others in
> recent months that measured .593 and .592. I'm just curious if they were
> concerned with specific specs back then, or just made them to ballpark
> measurements as long as they played up to spec...I realize that machinery
> and tooling has become more sophisticated since.

Even today that would be well within spec for most types of manufacturing.
That's less than 1% variation.

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