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Re: Unsalvageable clarinet?

Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-04-10 16:03

The clarion register is normally flatter in comparison to the chalumeau - but only by a tiny amount.

I had a similar thing with a Richard Keilwerth Eb clarinet - it was unplayable when I bought it and had the forked Bb mechanism (which I thought would be a bonus considering how much I use the forked fingering for Eb/Bb), so I stripped it down, cleaned it all up and repadded it.

When I played it after it was all finished, the tuning was all over the place, and the upper register is way too sharp in comparison to the lower which is strange, and the altissimo is off the scale.

I know it has a German bore, but I was hoping it would at least play a single scale in tune, and have some degree of stability.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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