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Re: "Donut" Fork Eb/Bb

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2015-04-18 22:15

42cheese wrote:

> Karl:
>
> -Did it sound good? Volume? Tone? Intonation? Compared to the
> standard Eb/Bb fingering? Compared to other forked Eb/Bb
> designs?
>
> -Did it feel okay?
>
> -Did it seem to affect the tone or intonation of other notes?
> Negatively? Positively?

To tell you the truth, I was too young and inexperienced to know how to answer these. The clarinet was stuffy and at least two repairmen told me they thought the donut was leaking enough to be a major contributor. My suspicion 50 years later is that if I had known then what I know now, I could have either gotten it to stop leaking myself or been more interactive with the repair people who said it couldn't be made to seal well. Finding an appropriate pad (I don't think standard open-hole flute pads fit correctly). as I remember, was a major hurdle. Today a good repair tech would make a pad by hand.

BTW, that clarinet also had a wrap around register key, just maybe to date its manufacture a little more closely.

That said, I'm not sure there are enough uses for that fingering to make any added problems a good trade-off. YMMV.

Karl

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