Klarinet Archive - Posting 000039.txt from 1994/11

From: Michael J Doyle <md6q+@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Barrels barrels barrels
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 00:03:32 -0500

Chris, I have had luck with the DEG Accubore DARK (note:no "fins"). It
seems to produce a nice dark tone, with its added resistance. I hate to
use that word without a demostration, but its affect is akin to playing
a ppp with a hard reed as opposed to a soft one. With the hard reed, the
added resistance forces you to set the embochure, and let the air flow
from your diaphragm, as opposed to using your throat to avoid closing
off the tip of a soft reed.
This is what I have found this particular barrel to do. My teacher
really likes it, Tom Thompson of the Pittsburgh symphony, and I saw a
noticeable improvement when I switched to it. It also seemed to help
clear up any "fuzziness" in some reeds I was using, though that is now
the real purpose.
If you can get your hands on one of these, they are fairly well
known, try it, if not, you know it exists. By the way, I am a freshman
clarinet player, and I wish I had the same inquisitiveness just a few
years ago that you had, so keep asking everything I probably could have
learned the _easy_ way, by net!

-Mike Doyle

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Carnegie-Mellon University
Freshman-Music(and otherstuff)
(412)862-2297
EMAIL@-----.edu

"Operating system, but I've nev... ok, sure!"
- Deviant "Bill" Gates