Klarinet Archive - Posting 000206.txt from 2005/03

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] 19th Key
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:28:33 -0500

John D. Stackpole wrote:

>Ah yes, an "off-by-one" error on my part....Thanks
>
>Is the "full Boehm" instrument, that can play Eb, a little bit longer
>than the "standard" Bb instrument - I suppose that physics says it
>would have to be. Where is the extra length "placed", so to speak? A
>longer bell or a longer lower joint? Or both?
>
>

I think it's a longer lower joint. The bell doesn't need
alteration---for example one can purchase from various makers a "basset"
lower joint (descending to low C) for your clarinet, and keep using the
same bell (and other parts).

I think some people have mentioned that this is beneficial for the long
B on the middle line of the stave, and the low E, since it gives these
notes a proper tonehole to sound from. I think some makers in fact make
their standard Bb instruments with the extra length and a tonehole
without any key for the E/B to sound from, for precisely this reason.

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