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Re: Bridge key problems?

Author: clarnibass
Date: 2006-12-24 07:04

Gordon wrote:

"I didn't really expect anybody to try to understand my convoluted explanation."

Really?

"If I am doing significant work on a clarinet, especially in this area, I modify the geometry of the linkage parts, such that the planes of both the face of the cork, and also the surface that engages the cork, are both tangents to this cylinder at the point of contact"

Do you mean you bend the metal to be convex, and you shape the cork (that is glued on a straight surface) to be concave (or the other way around if the cork is on the opposite side)?

On my clarinet the lower part of the bridge mechanism is shaped like the cylinder but the upper (corked) part is straight, and to work correctly only needs too thin cork to be able to shape as part of a cylinder in the correct radius. I guess it is possible to bend it in a way that a thicker cork will be needed and then shape it and it will work good, but in reality I've noticed that it is very easy to align it and have it work good the way it is.

Have the two parts round in the right radius cylinder like you describe can make it even easier to align, but you want to have the two joints aligned for most comfortable hand position too, and that position should also give the best bridge mechanism position. IMHO the very tiny differences that still allow for comfortable hands position are small enough to allow the bridge mechanism to work perfectly (plus like I said I think it is vert easy to align it).

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