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Geoffrey Acton

Author: graham
Date: 2009-02-06 13:12

This person's claim to fame is the design of the Acton Vent key which "improves" the low B natural and corresponding F sharp. He is also known to have been a designer in Boosey & Hawkes for an extended period possibly covering parts of the 1950s up to the early 1980s. I spoke to him on the phone once about clarinets. In general however, there appears to be very little information about him. Yet he seems to have been influential in the largest clarinet maker in the UK, and probably therefore knew a good deal about the history and developent of British instruments (or ones passsed off as British instruments).

I just wondered therefore if anyone knows anything more about him, or has recollections of meetings or conversations, and whether he has traceable family still around who might know more.

I am not researching this privately so any comments can be posted here rather than being sent to me.

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2009-02-06 13:12