Klarinet Archive - Posting 000697.txt from 1999/10

From: PyneClarion@-----.com
Subj: [kl] re: hard rubber barrels
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 20:55:00 -0400

I played hard rubber barrels (Springer, reamed for me by him in Chicago) for
many years as principal in the Buffalo Philharmonic. I was at that time
(60's) playing barrels supplied with the Moennig clarinets he prepared for me
in the mid 50's The Springers were not better than the Moennigs but seemed
equally good and the stability of the material was welcome, especially at the
western end of Lake Erie where the weather is very changeable.

Features of those older barrels, both Moennig and Springer, were used as
models for the barrels we now produce. Many materials were tested in the
process of development and the engineering polymer that we chose performed
most like wood and hard rubber in trial sessions. Hard rubber is quite
brittle and the hard rubber Springer barrels had a tendency for the tenon
sockets to fracture.

For those of you that were at the Belgium Conference, Ricardo Morales was
performing on our barrels as well as the Pyne/Clarion Signature mouthpiece.

For more information on our barrels, visit our web site at:
http://www.pyne-clarion.com

Jim Pyne
Pyne/Clarion, Inc.
1-800-JPYNE-440

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