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Author: gRAHAM
Date: 2000-05-16 22:41
Hi,
I was looking through a catolog sent to me by leblanc. (Not a sales catolog) They have several clarinets and each one has a different bore. How does the bore size effect the sound and playability of any instrument.
Thanks,
GRaham
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Author: Dee
Date: 2000-05-17 10:57
Conventional wisdom is as follows:
Small bore - more focused and more inherently in tune. Easier to use in a classical setting.
Large bore - bigger, bolder sound but player must be more flexible to play in tune. It is also a bit easier to do things like pitch bending. Easier to use in jazz setting.
However, mouthpiece and reed make a major impact on either one. There have been classical players who use big bore horns and jazz players who have used small bore rather than follow "conventional" choices.
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Author: Graham Elliott
Date: 2000-05-17 15:19
I think it was Mario who wrote a long piece on this some while back, and it is worth searching the board for using key words to access the debate which has gone on over time.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-05-17 15:38
Good suggestion, Graham. Dee's comments are on target as usual. Also see below the "LeBlanc Pete Fountain" thread which turns into a bore discussion. My thots, "To each his own SOUND" . Don
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Author: Sherwood W. Franklin
Date: 2000-05-17 16:00
I was looking through the Woodwind Catalog and noticed that the Peter Eaton Clarinet literatute refers to this clarinet as a small bore instrument. The bore size is not mentioned. The Pete Fountain instrument .590 is refered to as a big bore instrument. What is the cut-off between big bore and small bore insruments? I have a Buffet full boehm with a .567 bore and a Selmer 10S with a .567 bore. The Selmer semms to have a darker tone than the Buffet. Is this my imagination or is there rally a difference? Thanks, Wes Franklin
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Author: J. Butler
Date: 2000-05-18 01:13
Get O.L. Gibsons book "Clarinet Acoustics" and it explains the effect of bore size, frasing and other aspects of clarinet development/manufacture that is easily read.
J. Butler
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Author: Chance Rey
Date: 2000-05-18 01:31
my clarinet is so flat it drives me nuts. should I get a smaller barrel or what
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-05-18 14:33
C R - If you will describe your clar [dating it as best you can] and mp, likely many of us can help. You should probably start a new thread, since being quite flat isn't related to bore size IMHO. Don
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Author: Graham Elliott
Date: 2000-05-18 15:34
The Peter Eaton International is small bore, but quite how small I don't know. His Elite model is very wide (15.2mm). Your general question depends on your point of view. I would say very roughly that 14.6mm to 14.75 is small. 14.8 to 14.95 is medium, and 15.00 to 15.2 (or wider if you are mad enough to make one) is wide. Sorry, can't think in imperial measurements. All of this is subjective.
Sherwood W. Franklin wrote:
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I was looking through the Woodwind Catalog and noticed that the Peter Eaton Clarinet literatute refers to this clarinet as a small bore instrument. The bore size is not mentioned. The Pete Fountain instrument .590 is refered to as a big bore instrument. What is the cut-off between big bore and small bore insruments? I have a Buffet full boehm with a .567 bore and a Selmer 10S with a .567 bore. The Selmer semms to have a darker tone than the Buffet. Is this my imagination or is there rally a difference? Thanks, Wes Franklin
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-05-18 15:53
Based upon .590" equals 15.0 mm, the English to Metric conversion factor is 25.424, that is, multiply the .590 by it [or divide the 15.0 by it] to obtain the other. I have just now found a new US patent, 6,054,644 "Interchangeable Bore Clarinet Barrel System" which may be of interest to some BBoarders, I will post some details under Inter. Bore Clar. Barrel [above]. Don
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