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Re: Bore size differences

Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2017-09-30 01:07

William, The S&S Reform Boehm clarinets I worked on were apparently virtually identical to those of Alan Hacker.
My customer was in fact studying with Hacker at the time Hacker bought his instruments from S&S and after trying those instruments my customer commissioned an almost identical pair (I think the only differences were some extra venting links on the upper joint and which I subsequently repadded with cork).

I worked on those instruments quite a few times between between 2-2007 and end of 2015 when I retired. From the records of my last work on them the serial indicates those instruments dated from 12/2004.
Somewhere in my earlier records will be the exact details of the bore sizes etc as I was very intrigued by those clarinets, the first Reform models I had worked on.

ps. I tried to play those instruments to see how the bore worked but had great difficulty as the mouthpieces were narrow with a very long lay and very close tip (<< 1mm). His setup was really light compared to my VD Crystal A1s and 3.5 reeds on Leblanc LLs. He however sounded great on them, albeit with a very pronounced Germanic focused tone. Totally different to the typical spread sound of B&H 1010s that had a similar bore size.

Post Edited (2017-09-30 01:17)

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