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Re: ugly, stuffy, awful throat tones

Author: Don Berger
Date: 2005-02-07 15:02

Have a tech replace that BAD PAD immediately !! Its prob your trouble over and above poor construction if your cl is like most student models the school teachers here refer to me for local, faster "get it up to playing condition" repair. I cant speak to many recent good-quality [wood pro] cl's other than my Sel Omega, but from the 1950s, both Selmer and Leblanc have made significant improvements with their "pinch Bb" mainly by virtue of reg vent size, tube length [inside the bore, with a "boss" on the outside the surface". There have been several improvement attempts [unsuccessful in marketing] such as by Stubbins [the best IMHO], Mazzeo and others, but player/teacher resistance to change doomed them. {again IMHO!!} Thats the way I see it, Don

Thanx, Mark, Don

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