Klarinet Archive - Posting 000172.txt from 2005/03

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] CBDNA USC BH
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:31:02 -0500

dnleeson wrote:

> Ben, the older Selmer and Buffet basset horns were small bore. Buffet
> was the first of the two to change over to the larger
> bore, at that time only used by LeBlanc (for the Boehm instruments).

Selmer did expand the bore of their basset horn, but as I understand it
was to a medium, not large bore---a 16.9mm bore similar to the standard
German basset horn.

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