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Re: Yamaha's two bore families

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2018-12-18 01:31

I've heard over the years that the "short barrel/long top joint" was a better system for tuning. I certainly was able to tune my Wurlitzer 100Cs by using some fairly outlandish barrel pulling and would have agreed with this premise. However, I more recently had the chance to try a German system Uebel (their's is a lower quality Oehler system; not on par with the recent Boehms they export) and the tuning got really out of whack much quicker.....the short barrel did not help. I also played CSGs for thirteen years and never really found the tuning of their short barrel design any more or less effective than that of the SEV which I had played some years before.

I don't know how obvious it is in the printed description in these diagrams (I couldn't make much of the translation), but the lower joint features a "German bore" taper in that it flares a bit later down the bore than a Boehm. Again, I never picked up a distinct advantage (or unique sound per se) over their SEV. The CSG just plays a bit more covered than the SEV cousin.

...................Paul Aviles

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