Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2014-11-20 18:12
WhitePlainsDave wrote:
>
> What changes might you make to the instrument, in terms of
> things like tone hole position and size? Would you offer
> different answers if I told you that you could design the
> clarinet with or without need for a register key?
>
Are you, as this seems to suggest, limiting the range of possibilities to changes in the opening that traditionally functions as the register vent?
If not, there have certainly been linkage schemes invented that open a tone hole which is lower and larger than the vent tube, generally the one that already exists, that's covered by the second from the top rh trill key. I have a Patricola that does a very nice job of this - when only the rk and A key are being pressed, it holds the vent closed and opens the side tone hole. When the rk is pressed without the A key (as it is with any note in the second register), the register vent opens instead. There was, of course, the old Mazzeo system, which opened the side tone hole when A and the rh rings were pressed at the same time.
Karl
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