Klarinet Archive - Posting 000357.txt from 1999/05

From: David Blumberg <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] re: Barrel from Mars (was odd looking barrel)
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 07:51:11 -0400

jim and joyce <lande@-----.com>
Subject: Odd looking barrel --- any info?
Message-ID: <37364519.8A4@-----.com>
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.
jim lande
What was I looking at?

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You saw a DEG Accubore Barrel. The material is actually metal. Funny you
saw that in D.C., as that is where I first saw one too being used by John
Coulehan that soloist for the US. Navy Band. He called it the "barrel from
Mars".

David Blumberg
playit@-----.com
http://www.mytempo.com
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