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Author: rtmyth
Date: 2014-02-26 22:13
are the two individually and separately selected, matched during manufacture, or matched after manufacture ? Does it matter?
richard smith
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Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2014-02-27 04:39
It is reputed that in the very distant past the very finest makers selected all the wood or an instrument from the same billet.
My only personal experience working with a hand maker of clarinets was that the joints were matched during manufacture (based on density, appearance etc) after the undersize bore and outline shape profile, tenons/sockets cut but before any toneholes drilled.
I suspect that is not the case for volume makers.
Does it matter?
My gut instinct is that those old time makers had an intuition based on long experience that suggests it does. But in modern times when wood is bought in bulk with no chance of knowing which tree the various pieces came from then probably less so - but the earlier the bits are selected and matched is probably still best.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2014-02-27 11:59
Most billets aren't even related and are usually only long enough to make a single joint from (apart from longer billets used for low C basses, basset horns and basset clarinet lower joints as well as wooden flute bodies, cor anglais and bass oboe joints), so it's highly unlikely both joints will ever be from the same billet.
High end instruments will sometimes have the joints selected so they are a near as possible match in colour and grain pattern, but more often than not they aren't.
Buffet get around this on their E13 to R13/RC clarinets by staining the joints with alcohol based dye to make them look uniform. Schreiber paint the joints on their Buffet E11s and oboes with black paint to make them look uniform.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
Post Edited (2014-02-27 12:01)
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Author: rtmyth
Date: 2014-02-27 14:33
Thanks for the info!! According to the Libertas video, the two sections are selected, by what criteria I don't know, and then joined and stamped with the same serial number.
richard smith
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