 The Clarinet BBoard
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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2019-12-13 17:58
donald wrote:
> That Babbitt website gives the tip openings in some weird 3
> digit number, what's that about? It's the 21st century matey...
The numbers look like thousandths of an inch. For a while the Brand kits had a tip wand (which I still use) that measured that way. But those numbers look large for a clarinet tip opening. A 1.00mm tip is about .039 inches. Even the .047 would be about 1.19 mm, and the other two would be even more open.
My roommate in college in the late 1960s (and friend and clarinet colleague until his recent death) played very happily on a Portnoy for several years that I knew him. He never played on anything nearly that open. So, it the one Ben bought is old enough, it may turn out to be very playable.
Karl
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Ben Shaffer |
2019-12-13 05:52 |
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Dan Shusta |
2019-12-13 11:52 |
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donald |
2019-12-13 14:10 |
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oldreedguy |
2019-12-13 14:43 |
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Ben Shaffer |
2019-12-13 17:00 |
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Re: Regarding Portnoy Mouthpieces new |
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kdk |
2019-12-13 17:58 |
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AndyW |
2019-12-13 18:53 |
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Ken Lagace |
2019-12-13 20:13 |
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Daniel Frazelle |
2019-12-14 01:18 |
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Dan Shusta |
2019-12-14 01:35 |
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Bob Bernardo |
2019-12-14 19:32 |
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Ed Palanker |
2019-12-15 18:27 |
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