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Author: peterd05
Date: 2006-07-30 08:20
anybody know of a place where i can have an Eb/Ab lever added to my clarinet? or if it is even possible? maybe someone here can point me in the right direction lol. i play a Buffet RC, built in 2004 if that helps.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2006-07-30 10:28
It is possible, there are two types of Eb lever you can have added:
The standard type (which Buffet use) where the touch is above the LH levers and the key is mounted on an extra set of pillars fitted below the existing ones the LH levers are mounted on, the LH Eb lever will have a bend in it below the touchpiece and will run on the outside of the LH levers, and the end lifts a tab soldered onto the Eb key cup.
There is another way with less surgery done to the clarinet itself (no need for extra pillars and a tab added to the Eb key) - the Eb lever is mounted on the same pillars as your existing LH F/C lever, but is a second touch just below the F/C touch.
Kinda like the trill keys on flutes where the end key operates the end pad, and the inner key operates the inner pad and neither interferes with the other in operation. The original F/C touch and foot are cut off and the barrel hollowed out, then they're mounted on a steel and screwed to each end so they don't move, and the new Eb lever also runs on the same steel but has it's own barrel, and the foot lifts the Eb key from the underside. And with this type, if you want the clarinet put back to how it was, all you need is a new LH F/C lever fitted, and no pillar holes to fill and removing the lug from the Eb key cup.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: peterd05
Date: 2006-07-30 15:37
if i were to get it done, i would probably go with the buffet-type Eb lever. thanks for the input! do you know where i can get this done? thanks! :D
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2006-07-30 16:59
My 2 cents worth, if you watch ads, here and elsewhere, and/or auctions or music store tradeins, you might find, as I did, a Full Boehm Selmer AND a LeBlanc "half full Boehm" [Ab/Eb and C#/G#] of the early [1950s] vintage, earlier than the Pete Fountains, both are excellent players and were only several hundred $'s in cost. prob. less than the cost of a GOOD addition to a favorite cl. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Ken Mills
Date: 2006-08-02 02:08
OK Peterd05; Here in San Francisco I have had it done on about three clarinets. Talk to Daniel Deitch at 415.221.2735. He is in business on Clement Street. The last time I simply retained the aux lever from my Selmer Signature after I sold it because it is designed to be removed by people who do not want it. It was mounted on the same posts that contain the outermost C#/F# lever. He used to work for Erwin Burger (now gone) who was trained in Switzerland where he was born and was a master craftsman who could do trombone slides and bassoons. Daniel knows me by now, after all, Ken Mills
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Author: peterd05
Date: 2006-08-02 03:12
just called him and said hes flooded with repairs until mid-august. thanks for his info though, ill contact him then!
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2006-08-03 23:13
Try these:
Timothy Clark - Columbus, OH
Stephen Fox - Tronto, Ontario, Canada
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Author: peterd05
Date: 2006-08-04 00:16
i tried contacting S. Fox, but they never answer the phone, or answer the emails lol. the website says it hasnt been updated since 09/2004 haha. im guessing something happened? but ill look intol Timothy Clark.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2006-08-04 00:26
peterd05 wrote:
> i tried contacting S. Fox, but they never answer the phone, or
> answer the emails lol. the website says it hasnt been updated
> since 09/2004 haha. im guessing something happened?
I'm guessing a problem on your end ... some of his pages were modified very recently and his email works just fine. He may be on the road at the moment.
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Author: crnichols
Date: 2006-08-04 02:13
Mid-August is like two weeks from now, is that really so long to wait?
Christopher Nichols, D.M.A.
Assistant Professor of Clarinet
University of Delaware
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2006-08-04 21:36
That is the date on Steve Fox' home page. There is other stuff that is newer.
Haven't talked to him in a year. He was teaching instrument construction at a school in Norway every fall - too early for that yet.
His biographical pages lists performances in Australia July 25-27, 2006. And the ICA convention is coming up - he usually goes to that.
My guess is that he is pretty busy.
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