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"Extra" key?

Author: SJGordon
Date: 2011-11-08 03:20
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I have kind of a strange question for everybody. One of my Sons had expressed an interest in joining band when he got into the 6th grade and wanted to play the clarinet. Seeing how I had a couple of years before he was in 6th grade, I started looking around for older instruments that were in decent shape yet. I bought 4 or 5 and when it was getting close to school starting this year I had him go through them and pick the one he wanted to play. He chose an old Conn (1922 from what could be determined at the repair shop) and I took it in to be inspected, and then cleaned, re-padded, etc... if it was worth it. The woman called back and mentioned an extra key on the upper section.

What it is, is a key like on the first two holes and an extra pad between #2 and #3 holes. #2 key closes the pad between #1 and #2, as well as closing the extra pad between #2 and #3. The #3 key closes just the pad between the #1 and #2 keys.

Nobody has an answer as to what is going on with this instrument and the "extra" key. It plays beautiful and he is ecstatic about it. There doesn't seem to be a difference in sound between his and my wifes clarinet. Any help here would be MUCH appreciated. It is driving us nuts not knowing why they would put this on an instrument. He likes it because it is different from everybody elses instrument and has such a smooth, mellow sound.

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