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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2008-01-11 19:45
From what I remember, the Wurlitzer Boehm uses the same oversized-tenon-but-smaller-mouthpiece as the Oehler. Hard to tell from the distorted image, but my first guess would be that it is the same (since the "Reform Boehm" is really intended for progressive Germans).
............Paul Aviles
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2008-01-21 15:04
How does she play for you?
I especially like the rollers and alternate E-flat key.
I owned an Uebel pair from the GDR, and it had spotty tuning.
(Nice tone, and mechanical feel - but pretty wild scale.)
FYI - I think your in-house clarinets are brilliant - but out of my budget!
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2008-01-21 15:31
This one (Hammerschmidt Klingson) has a gorgeous tone, and the tuning is pretty much on par with my Selmers and Leblanc (though the 8ves aren't as wide which is a plus), and that's using a French-style mouthpiece (my tester Selmer C85 120 and main Vandoren A1).
The bore appears to be more French than German (looking at the widening in the lower joint as it starts around the F#/C# tonehole), and measures 14.6mm at the middle tenon which makes it the narrowest bore clarinet I own, but it seems to play like a large bore clarinet with plenty of resonance and warmth, as well as being able to project - it definitely sounds German! And it's as light as a feather - weighs so much less than my full Boehms and balances well, tipping towards me rather than away from.
I will need to do some work on setting it up as the rings are too high at the moment and the forked Bb xox|ooo is a little on the flat side, but it's easy enough to increase the small vent tonehole diameter to bring it up to pitch, but nothing that can't be sorted.
Having tried a pair of 'in-house' cocobolo clarinets I was gobsmacked by them, and that's not being biased.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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