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Author: r small
Date: 2021-10-06 19:16
Are there currently any clarinet makers who offer clarinets with extra mechanisms, e.g. articulated G#/C# and forked Bb/Eb?
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Author: r small
Date: 2021-10-07 08:27
I had a Patricola eefer that had articulated G#/C# and LH Eb/Ab but I sold it a while back. Nice little horn. Now I wished I had kept it. Also about the same time I sold my Leblanc LL 3/4 Boehm (articulated G#/C#, forked Bb/Eb, and LH Eb/Eb). Good horn but had some intonation issues. Now I'm playing a Selmer Presence with standard 17/6 key work. I like this horn but I would sure like to have an articulated G#/C# mechanism. I have a Selmer catalogue from 1996 that shows the Recital model available with the extra key work as a special order item. I have a feeling that's no longer an option.
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Author: donald
Date: 2021-10-07 13:04
There's actually a way you can retro fit an articulated c#/g# on to a modern clarinet - you have to find someone who can MAKE keys, but they don't need to drill an extra hole, you just use the existing tone holes... But you'll have two linkages between the two joints instead of one (a minor complication).
The only reason I haven't done this is that I like "long f" fingering and you can't do that with an articulated c#/g# (you also lose some very common multiphonic fingerings)
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Author: Micke Isotalo ★2017
Date: 2021-10-08 22:33
If Reform Boehm clarinets are included, there are also models from Wurlitzer, Dietz, Leitner&Kraus and Harald Hüyng with these kind of extra mechanisms.
The articulated G#/C# just works differently on these, but in my opinion in a lot smarter and simpler way. Since the trill mechanism doesn't open the C#/G# pad, it doesn't restrict fingerings like the long F, or similar. Instead, the second register f#-g# trill is executed with the l.h. ring finger (thus changing between XXX|0X0 and XXO|0X0). Still, some other alternate fingerings are affected to some degree by this mechanism.
New clarinets from these makers are ordered directly from them.
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