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Re: Geoffrey Acton

Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2009-02-07 19:38

The earlier design was extremely fragile, using pinned rods aka the flute which just did not stand up to the heavier clarinet action and was a nightmare to keep in adjustment, it was replaced very quickly by the second version.
There are still a few of the first version in circulation but by now pretty clapped out.
Personally I find the second version, whilst more robust, feels very "clunky" and hard to get a really "snappy" action on the RH rings.
p.s. wasn't the reform Boehm arround a long time before the Acton 1010?

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