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Bell Attached to Lower Joint [Nut]Cases

Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2015-03-02 07:53

Does someone have a an answer, even if it's just "the company line," to how one might ask, "why did you design a case where the bell remains attached to the lower joint?"

Is it that most of these cases allow some seperation of the bell and lower joint when storing the instrument?

Is that company line something like "those who own our cases we assume to be professionals who routinely play their instruments, and seperate/grease the tenon between the lower joint and the barrel?"

Anyone will tell you that keeping joints together for long periods of time is a recipe for problems.

Again, I'm not asking you to believe in what such an answer to my question might be. Maybe some of you just recall how clarinet makers who sold their instruments with such cases justified it (if they did at all.) Even Tosca's cases are designed this way today. I don't get it. Would making the case an inch wider or deeper have really been that big a deal? Do clarinet makers who sell their instrument with such cases feel that joints not seperated enough and seizing/locking together is overstated?

Is it overstated?

I've heard keeping these sections together, if nothing else, is a good way to damage the cork on the tenon, as revealed if/when the sections are separated.

Thanks.

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