Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2001-03-20 17:44
Mr. Bjorling has a Buffet Prestige C that he has modified for better intonation. This includes moving the register vent down 10mm (!!!). He did this to his previous instrument, a Leblanc, with good success.
He also has a Stephen Fox C with a low D, delivered early 2000. I have the next previous serial number Fox C, which has standard compass (low E). These instruments solve low pitch problems in the altissimo register that Buffet and Leblanc C's exhibit.
Don't know which instrument Mr. Bjorling uses more now, but I would guess its the SF.
Mr. Fox lives in Richmond Hill, Ontario (Toronto area,) where he makes A, B flat, C, and E flat, instruments, Basset Horns, Basset Clarinet extensions, Tarogato's, and lots more. I met him at the 1988 (?) ICA in Columbus OH, where he had his instruments on display, and also delivered an eye-opening paper about the bore of the clarinet. It is my understanding that he is developing quite a waiting list.
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The Ethnic Clarinet
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