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Author: Tony F
Date: 2016-03-19 19:29
I've just finished restoring an old Rampone Bb Boehm clarinet. The only other Rampone clarinet I've ever worked on was a wonderful old Albert system in C, and the build quality on that one was superb, but this, presumably later instrument was a real problem. The keywork appears to be made of some sort of alloy produced from old wheel weights and coca cola cans, and has the rigidity of a wire coat hanger.
Some of the tone holes were not correctly positioned, being offset from the centre of the bore and the C#/G# key was just drilled into the tube with no crown. It was a major effort to find all the leaks after repadding it and I had to make some pads to fit some of the off-centre tone holes. I seriously wondered if it would make a better lamp than a clarinet.
Somewhat to my surprise, when I finally got it playing it turned out to have a wonderful sweet tone similar to my old Jerome Thibouville Lamy instrument and extremely good tuning.
An interesting exercise.
Tony F.
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Author: Mirko996
Date: 2016-03-19 23:55
Rampone Cazzani are very good instrument, and they are still working to saxophone. I never tried. However I have in home a broke rampone cazzani muller system...
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