Author: John Peacock
Date: 2019-07-14 21:56
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Just to add to this, here are a few pictures of what I meant. Both are Booseys from about 1930; one is pure simple system, whereas the other has the Clinton-Barret mechanism. Both have the small mouthpiece tenon, of about 21.0 mm diameter, as opposed to 22.2 mm for a modern example. You can spot the small one by eye, even without the modern comparison.
The Clinton-Barret has a conventional style tuning barrel, but the simple system one has an interesting internal metal tuning slide, so that there is no gap between the joints when you pull out. Both kinds of barrels have a 28,000-ish serial number on them.
And both instruments are indeed wide bore. The top/bottom measurements of the upper joint are 15.40/15.29 for the simple system and 15.20/15.10 for the Clinton-Barret system. So even if you lathed down a standard mouthpiece tenon to fit, it would probably still need reaming out in order to play in tune.
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