Klarinet Archive - Posting 000356.txt from 1999/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Odd looking barrel --- any info?
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 07:03:32 -0400

At 10:31 PM 5/9/99 -0400, jim lande wrote:
>Mother's day dinner was at a large seafood place on the Washington DC
>waterfront. The restaraunt had a strolling group: Banjo, Tuba &
>Clarinet. From a distance, the barrel on the clarinet looked like a
>section of vacuum cleaner hose. When I got up close, you could see that
>the barrel was more of a narrow tube with disks spaced about a quarter
>inch apart on the outside. From perpendicular to the barrel, you could
>see that the inside tube was actually somewhat hourglass shaped. I
>assume that the whole thing was cast out of plastic. The player did not
>know the brand, but said that it acted as a silencer. He said that he
>got it initially because it was only 60 mm and many of the musicians he
>played with preferred to play pitched somewhat higher than 440.
>
>Can anyone tell me what this is or explain the purpose of the hourglass
>internal profile.
>
>What was I looking at?
>
>From the description, it sounds like a standard DEG Accubore barrel. These
are made of an aluminum alloy, not plastic. And are HARDLY silencers! The
internal APPEARS hourglass-shaped because you see the step-down from the
tenon sockets to the smaller diameter of the bore, like the top portion of
a metal clarinet barrel. The "disks" are supposed to act sort of like
cooling fins, keeping the barrel temperature constant, thus minimizing
intonation changes as you play.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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