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

Author: Dibbs
Date: 2017-02-24 18:34

ruben wrote:

>
> ...keeping an identical bore and distributing the holes a
> little differently, and thus changing their size, makes for
> radically different tone: you simply have an entirely different
> clarinet when you do this.
>

Does the tuning of the 12ths change too? I imagine that smaller holes would lead to narrower 12ths.

My reasoning is that 12ths are narrow for forked fingerings on early clarinets. They usually only work in one register. Making the tone holes smaller is similar in that it reduces venting.

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