Klarinet Archive - Posting 000569.txt from 2001/01

From: Ann H Satterfield <klarann@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl]shared barrel and quick changes
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:01:19 -0500

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 18:52:59 EST GrabnerWG@-----.com writes:
> In a message dated 1/16/01 9:47:13 AM Central Standard Time,
>
> I was doing essentially the same thing, using a Moennig bored Bb
> barrel on both Bb and A. Like you, I considered the "warm-up" theory
to
> compensate for the fact that the barrel did not tune as well on the A.
>
> However, last summer when I was performing the Mozart and Brahms
> Quintets, I realized that the tuning on the A was not acceptable.

Are you saying that the A clarinet barrel didn't tune? I vaguely
remember your comments about the difficulty back then.
> I finally made my own barrel for my A clarinet, with the same
> Moennig reverse
> cone taper, but approx .004 less diameter in the bore. This kept the
> response
> the same, the tone "Moennig barrel like" and the pitch was much,
> much better.
[snip]
>
> I'm trying right now to duplicate the same barrel on my lathe, using
> cocobolo
> and African Blackwood.

And is this going to also be a ClarinetXpress product?

Ann
`````Ann Satterfield```(Central Florida, USA)```

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