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Re: Hole in the bell

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2021-12-26 15:28

Funny story.

Back in high school, they had an A clarinet that I used for orchestra that was really quite flat on the low notes. To accommodate playability I took a pair of scissors to the bell, just using one pointy end, and began rotating (at a point around two thirds of the way up from the bottom) until I achieved a hole about a quarter inch in diameter. The band master was livid and made me pay for a replacement. The tech who saw my work said the hole was not high enough or large enough to work properly, but it did raise the pitch some.

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

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