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Re: The mysterious B clarinet

Author: crazyclari
Date: 2023-04-07 09:03

Of note is that I own three custom made clarinets from Leblanc. One was made well after they stopped making the model. One was never technically made, took 3.5 years to get made and does not exist in any catalogue. Two have serial numbers that are totally wrong for their date of manufacture.
-Custom made clarinets do occur.
-In B is I agree, and have said so all along is nuts.
I have talked about apprentice miniature furniture as a comparison.

Please see (and read) all the previous messages for clarification.

Sorry to repeat myself
Facts are what is needed, opinions are great but...
I have tried to find factual evidence for the issues raised
Another angle difference in length between a 14.61mm bore clarinet and a 15mm bore clarinet is about 5mm by my calculations on my clarinets.
The faux B falls within those proportions for bore, length and pitch.

One argument could be that it is a super large bore e.g. like 15.3mm 10/10 and requires a cylindrical bore mouthpiece. That would be a great argument. My understanding is that the evolution of 10/10 resulted in that bore 'fairly recently ' and they would not have existed in 1904.

Happy for someone to provide factual evidence for variations on that. E.g. provide a clarinet length????
I have a couple more clarinets I can measure to provide further perspectives. If required.
One of my previous messages contains a photo of the requested tenons. They appear to be original and correct in length.

Ferron who provides the best information on tone holes speaks in relation to the size location and resultant pitch and that they can effect other notes. They can also impact on nodes and anti nodes. I could not identify anywhere the tone hole volume impact on the capacity and pitch of the instrument, it seems to be implied.
The volume contained in the clarinet give it its virtues. He then goes in to details. Regarding nodes and anti-nodes in relation to tuning

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