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Re: About that Ridenour Bass Clarinet...

Author: Don Berger
Date: 2004-06-01 15:25

R S, You are correct in your description of the register key [1{top of U J} or 2 {high [on neck] AND lower}] actions, IMHO. Dave S and perhaps Tom R, please help. The Ridenour "flyer" doesn't use the word "automatic", so I assume that their "double register key mechanism' is [poorly?] applied to operation of the pinch Bb [large] pad AND the single reg. key, up on the metal cap into which the neck tenon fits, much like my recollection of the older LeBlanc bass cl structure. From what I've seen/studied, the various makers over [about] 80 years of [improved] bass cl making have tried to solve this "stuffy" lower clarion tone/response problem in a number of diff. ways. I have a group of patents on these several mechanisms, most recent to Yamaha, but haven't seen this on their basses, perhaps may at the OU Symp this weekend! I'm sure not claiming any expertise in all this, I just try to observe how they work mechanically and how they sound re: the Bb and the lower clarion notes. All HELP welcomed. Don

Thanx, Mark, Don

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