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Re: stuffy B

Author: Avie
Date: 2006-02-20 00:20

The long Lft pinky C lever arm does not provide sufficient pad pressure because of the long 6-7 inches from the lft pinky finger key to its pad to play as well as any of the keys with a shorter arm and pivot point. Clarinet players know it to be common in many standard sized Bb clarinets. A stronger pivot arm and special pad along with precise adjustment by an excellant tech. or as mentioned above a major functional design on clarinets in general. The rt hand B is harder to reach for some but has a shorter arm to the pad than the Lft hand pinky B which is fuzzier on some clarinets again because of the arm lengths much like the C. Its probably not a coincidence but a good tech could probably solve the problem.

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