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Re: The Register Key and tuning compromises

Author: ned
Date: 2014-08-14 05:46

Ken Shaw wrote: ''The standard register key opening is just wide enough to slide in a nickel.''

For us who do not use USA currency - just how big or small is a nickel?

I have travelled to the USA and used the currency often - but not for a few years - and my memory of the size of your coins is vague.

Perhaps you could advise a millimetre measurement? We Aussies, amongst many others, use metric.

thanks,

JK

(ps) Upon reading down I notice Paul Aviles cites a nickel as 1mm. This then is the optimum opening gap?

(pps) Tony Pay suggests modulating the speaker key opening? Seems reasonable, but I suspect it requires some extra thumb dexterity which I may not possess, but I am happy to take some advice regarding the correct technique. I do modulate the openings of those keys on the top when required, but in the rush of playing, the register key tends to be - like his piano analogy suggests - either on or off.

My issue is that I use an ancient Hawkes & Son (12 key, 2 ring) instrument for the N.O. jazz that I play. The instrument is very nice but the choice of fingering is somewhat limited and some notes in the middle register can be a little woolly.

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