Author: Chris P
Date: 2013-04-29 17:43
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The best thing to do is try out a rebuilt and well set-up wooden B&H clarinet to see how you get on with it.
The ventings are generally set too low when they left the factory, but they can be increased to clear any stuffy notes which they can suffer from, especially the lower register notes such as (in descending order) open G, side F#, E, side Eb, C#, C and B (when played with the cross key fingering).
The other week I rebuilt a machined plastic (PVC) bodied Edgware which still had the original pads in (it was built around 1982-83) and the ventings were very low. It was very stuffy (not helped with some torn pads), but I increased all the ventings and it played incredibly well with a nice full tone. See attached photo.
Have to say it's the only B&H clarinet I've seen where the tenons were a perfect and wobble-free fit in their respective sockets with the tenon corks removed. If only that was true with most.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
Post Edited (2013-04-29 17:45)
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