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RE: Undercut Toneholes, Design and Customization

Author: jim lande
Date: 2001-04-10 00:39

What a great posting. Thank you very much Ken.

Undercutting goes back at least to the early 1930s. Buescher advertised that its metal clarinets (the model 730 and 740 series) were undercut. I dont' think this means that anyone went in with a reamer, but rather some of the tone holes looked like they were constructed out of two tubes, one inside the other, with the inside tube not extending all the way to be flush with the body. I have been told that if you put a little mirror inside, you can actually see the transition.

This said, I don't like the Bueschers I have played as well as some other brands of metal clarinets.

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