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Re: Boosey & Hawkes bass clarinets

Author: Chris P
Date: 2022-11-01 05:07

They're the only basses I've seen with an expansion in the lower joint bore below the F#/C# tonehole like soprano clarinets have, when most Boehm system basses maintain a perfectly cylindrical 23mm or thereabouts bore (or as much as 24mm on Leblanc basses) along their entire length from the crook all the way down to the lower joint tenon.

Provided they've been well maintained and not butchered by having dodgy repairs done to them (especially if they were former military band instruments), they should be nice players.

Here's a previous thread about them:
http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=364505&t=364505

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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