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:
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Adolphe Sax sr. |
22500 |
1860 |
25.0 |
23.3 |
tessiture to low B |
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Association Générale |
– |
after 1885 |
26.3 |
24.4 |
tessiture to low B |
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Adolphe Sax sr |
41197 |
1882 |
25.1 |
20.6 |
tessiture to low B |
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Adolphe Sax jr., 51 rue Blanche |
– |
1897 |
25.7 |
26.5 |
tessiture to low B |
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E. Buffet, rue Guilhem |
– |
1888 – 1901 |
27.0 |
23.6 |
tessiture to low B |
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Beaugnier/Hakkert |
– |
unknown |
27.1 |
28.3 |
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Pan Am |
49197 |
1933 |
25.8 |
18.5 |
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Buescher Aristocrat |
268450 |
1934 |
25.6 |
20.1 |
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Buescher Aristocrat big B |
350173 |
1955 |
26.0 |
21.8 |
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Selmer Mark 6 |
59629 |
1955 |
25.8 |
17.2 |
tessiture to low A |
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the Martin Baritone |
200132 |
1956 |
25.9 |
22.0 |
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Conn 12M crossbar |
C09383 |
1963 |
25.8 |
19.5 |
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Weltklang |
3536 |
1971 |
24.9 |
16,9 |
tessiture to low A (before reconstruction) |
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Selmer SA80 |
368455 |
1985 |
25.6 |
14.6 |
tessiture to low A |
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Selmer SA80-II |
629967 |
2005 |
25.7 |
14.1 |
tessiture to low A |
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Mauriat PMB-300 |
B13792 |
2007 |
25.6 |
15.6 |
tessiture to low A |
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Trevor James SR |
B16485 |
2014 |
25.7 |
16.0 |
tessiture to low A |
profiles of the baritones |
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(in full on a 1:10 grid.) |
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profiles of the baritones |
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(again and compared to the average main conicity of 20th century instruments [in green].) |