Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2019-03-11 07:03
I have a set of these by J. Seggelke. They're new, so I don't know about warping, though the Bb upper joint cracked and is back there for repair. He oils them a lot, probably way more than Buffet oils their wood. He also has substantially more wood on them than other makers, especially on the upper joint, which flairs out at the top--sort of what some people do with barrels, but he does it with the upper joint too. He does the same thing with grenadilla. As far as I know, it's the same boxwood as you see on 18th century instruments, but the oil turns it a middle brown rather than the bright yellow of the natural wood. The wood in the 18th century probably came from France or Spain, and I think S&S gets most of it from Turkey now.
Stephen Fox has an article about boxwood in connection with Mühlfeld's instruments, which were boxwood. I think he gets into what they cured the wood with in the middle 19th century, which was some fairly strong stuff that I don't think anyone uses now. Mühlfeld played a version of the Bärmann system which was out of date when Brahms heard him, so they were probably older and I think we'd have heard if they were shaped like bananas. One of them might be in a museum somewhere.
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The Clarinet BBoard
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