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RE: tone holes

Author: Eoin McAuley
Date: 2001-04-09 07:08

"Regular" tone holes are small cylindrical holes drilled straight though the wood into the bore of the clarinet. Very few clarinets have this type of tone hole.

Undercut tone holes start of the same and look exactly the same from the outside. The widen out in a conical shape before joining the bore. If you could look at them from the inside, you would see a conical pit with a cylindrical hole at the bottom of it.

What are they for? I believe that the undercutting helps play exactly in tune more, allowing less flexibility with adjustment of pitch. For this reason they are favoured among classical players but jazz players prefer "regular".

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