Klarinet Archive - Posting 000379.txt from 2004/12

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: metal clarinets
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:03:05 -0500

At 10:33 AM 12/29/2004 -0500, Dee Flint wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- From: "DWH" <dwh46@-----.net>
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>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.

Not to mention the change in wood over time. Nominally, the bore should be
.590.

Bill Hausmann

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

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