Klarinet Archive - Posting 000088.txt from 2010/08

From: Jennifer Jones <helen.jennifer@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] speaker bushes
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:16:39 -0400

I have heard both speaker key and register key used to refer to the
key above the thumb tone hole through out the twenty odd years that
I've been playing.

-Jennifer

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:27 AM, James Leonard Hobby <jhobby@-----.net> wr=
ote:
> I don't know if this is the same thing, but ... my clarinet prof at
> university was originally from, and got his undergrad degree in, the UK --
> many years before -- and he would refer to the register key as the speaker
> key, observing that if the opening of the speaker key wasn't correct, or =
if
> you let "belly lint" collect in it, the sound could be muffled, particula=
rly
> in the throat register, as well as monkey up the tuning of the whole
> instrument. =A0He would use Scotch tape to change how far the key could o=
pen.
> It was quite instructive. I always tried to keep belly lint out of mine. =
<g>
>
> Jim Hobby
>
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