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

Author: D Dow
Date: 2017-02-23 20:08

This thread is really quite a good one because towards the late 40s and mid 50s in the last century there was a big move towards large bore clarinet...ie Selmer and Buffet with the medium bore r13...accordingly the Brits had the 1010 Booseys. This came along when players were seeking great projection..but big bore clarinets can be quite resistant and not so easy a match to mouthpieces and reeds!

Sadly..clarinetists can at times be conservative because the sound they get from a given instrument is not at all what they have in mind for themself....I remember a conversation with John McCaw about clarinet great Frederick Thurston and Reginald Kell..both played the same model mouthpieces and reeds and clarinets

but Thurston always produced a narrow very centered sound while Kell produced the famed flutey tone he was admired for.

These things being said if a maker has half a brain they can certainly make a very nice large bore clarinet that plays well...

Karl Leister also made a comment in an older article which i will not quote..but the German clarinet in the late 60s underwent a great deal of bore modification at what he felt was a loss of its older character. In that case the bore was made somewhat larger...so like anything it is all apples and oranges..

Large bore clarinets

Selmer CT
Selmer 9s where fairly big
Boosey 1010s
not sure of other french large bore clarinets...but the r13 after the Caree modifications of the 50s went to a larger bore diameter....

Robert Marcellus played on a set of pre Caree Buffet clarinets through his career..in other words smaller bore straight bore clarinets!

David Dow

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