Author: Micke Isotalo ★2017
Date: 2018-04-05 11:18
With "recent" I mean the current bore size of 14,6 mm (at the top of the top joint) (Edit 2018-05-29: No, not at the top but the bottom. Se my post from this later date below) on their Reform Boehm clarinets. I don't know exactly when that was introduced, but Bernd Wurlitzer told me last summer that this size has been "since some years".
I also notice from a picture on the new Wurlitzer Webpage that their current Reform Boehm clarinet is lacking the previous double vented low f/c4-key (affecting the tone of low g/d4 - see https://wurlitzerklarinetten.de/klarinetten/ and scroll down to the 185 model). Apparently they no longer consider this feature as necessary. I don't know if this change was introduced at the same time as the new bore, but perhaps that was the case.
Anyway, has someone tried this current model? How was the tone and tuning? How did it compare to their previous designs, if you have played on such ones?
I may add that my own Wurlitzers from 2002 has the 14,8 bore size, and a few years later it was changed to 14,85. As said, now it's 14,6 but I don't know if there may have been other changes in between these two latter measurements. By the way, as I understand the current 14,6 is the same as on older Fritz Wurlitzer RB clarinets.
Post Edited (2018-05-29 22:27)
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