Klarinet Archive - Posting 000011.txt from 2008/04

From: "Keith Bowen" <bowenk@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Wandering 12ths
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:26:05 -0400

From: klarinet-return-93163-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org
[mailto:klarinet-return-93163-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org] On Behalf
Of GrabnerWG@-----.com
Sent: 02 April 2008 04:59
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Wandering 12ths

>No one yet has solved the 12ths in the bottom of the clarinet,
manufacturers basically let the low F and E go way flat, to keep the
clarion B and C in line with the notes directly above and below.

Walter,

This has been solved simply by Wurlitzer on their Schmidt Reform Boehm
clarinets, by adding an extra vent key on the bell, operated by the RH
thumb, which you can use on low E and F. On these clarinets the tuning
adjustment is tiny anyway so I rarely use it, but it is there.

Someone like you could add this to a standard Boehm system.

Keith Bowen

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