Klarinet Archive - Posting 000015.txt from 2008/04

From: "Keith Bowen" <bowenk@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Wandering 12ths
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:06:23 -0400

Thanks for the info Walter. The key on the Wurlitzer does sharpen both E and
F. It is (as I understand it) for tuning not resonance.

Keith

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Subject: Re: [kl] Wandering 12ths

Keith Bowen wrote:
> 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.

Then Joseph said <<It's exactly what has been done on the Tosca clarinet.>>

Buffet HAS added a "resonance key" for the low F. It does not affect the
low
E.

Walter

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