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Re: What is/was wrong with big bore clarinets?

Author: John Peacock
Date: 2017-02-23 13:17

I agree with David Spiegelthal: bore dimension alone really can't cause the sort of differences that are being discussed. The logic is just guilt by association: clarinet model X has poor tuning; model X is big bore; therefore big bores cause poor tuning. As evidence to the contrary, consider Peter Eaton clarinets. These have tuning as good as you will find on a soprano clarinet, even though one model (the Elite) is big bore and the other (the International) is not. The issue is much more to do with bore shape. The Selmer CT and Boosey & Hawkes 1010 (both large-bore instruments with known tuning issues) are very nearly cylindrical in their upper joints. But putting a taper in the bore (as Eaton does) allows the 1010 design to attain much better tuning. The same applies at all bore dimensions: this is why the polycylindrical R13 is better in tune than its more nearly cylindrical Buffet predecessors.

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