BORE PROFILESbaritones



A thing to keep in mind with the profiles of baritones is the peculiar behaviour of short and wide bows. This particularly plays a role in the upper bow. The result of this behaviour is that the tube parts above and below the upper bow (on the left side and on the right side in the profile) are acoustically closer to one another and that conicity is larger than the profile seems to indicate.
Scattered dots refer to the instrument being rather seriously out–of–round. Chronologically, from top to bottom:

     • Adolphe Sax sr. 22500 1860 25.0 23.3 tessiture to low B
     • Association Générale after 1885 26.3 24.4 tessiture to low B
     • Adolphe Sax sr 41197 1882 25.1 20.6 tessiture to low B
     • Adolphe Sax jr., 51 rue Blanche 1897 25.7 26.5 tessiture to low B
     • E. Buffet, rue Guilhem 1888 – 1901 27.0 23.6 tessiture to low B
     • Beaugnier/Hakkert unknown 27.1 28.3
     • Pan Am 49197 1933 25.8 18.5
     • Buescher Aristocrat 268450 1934 25.6 20.1
     • Buescher Aristocrat big B 350173 1955 26.0 21.8
     • Selmer Mark 6 59629 1955 25.8 17.2 tessiture to low A
     • the Martin Baritone 200132 1956 25.9 22.0
     • Conn 12M crossbar C09383 1963 25.8 19.5
     • Weltklang 3536 1971 24.9 16,9 tessiture to low A (before reconstruction)
     • Selmer SA80 368455 1985 25.6 14.6 tessiture to low A
     • Selmer SA80-II 629967 2005 25.7 14.1 tessiture to low A
     • Mauriat PMB-300 B13792 2007 25.6 15.6 tessiture to low A
     • Trevor James SR B16485 2014 25.7 16.0 tessiture to low A


profiles of the baritones show profiles
(in full on a 1:10 grid.)

profiles of the baritones show profiles
(again and compared to the average main conicity of 20th century instruments [in green].)