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Re: is an o/haul for my Couesnon worth it?

Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2007-08-01 03:24

Chris P: Earlier (pre-Monopole) Couesnon clarinets, like many (if not most) pre-WW2 clarinets, had a plain hole for the sliver C#G# to which the pad had to conform (curvature-wise); but the postwar Monopoles, like just about every other 'modern' clarinet, had the leveled and 'coned' tonehole for that note.

I have two Monopoles myself, both have the modern-style tonehole; and I just completed overhauling an earlier non-Monopole Couesnon (also a very nice-playing instrument) which had the plain drilled hole for the C#/G# (although I flattened and radiused it for better pad seating, it was working fine before modification). I use leather pads, which have no trouble seating over a slightly curved tonehole (e.g. saxophone octave pips).

I still feel that the Couesnon Monopoles are, sample-to-sample variation notwithstanding, comparable to R-13s and Selmer Series 9s.

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