Klarinet Archive - Posting 000195.txt from 2001/10

From: "Roxy" <roxy@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] R: [kl] Success!!!!!!!
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:27:04 -0400

you shoul to study with Scarponi Ciro from Italy...
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From: <GrabnerWG@-----.com>
Subject: [kl] Success!!!!!!!

> If anyone has bothered to follow my posts, back over a year ago, you might
recall several posts concerning intonation problems on my A clarinet.
>
> I was rehearsing and performing the Mozart and Brahms Quintets, and having
some knotty problems in the high register, especially b and c about the
staff. They were quite sharp, and I had to employ several strategies, none
terribly effective, to get these notes down to a itch acceptable to my
string playing friends.
>
> When I did manage, it was often at the expense of the throat tones
becoming flat, expecially thumb f.
>
> Based on that experience and some of the things I had read in Benade, and
the O. Lee Gibson book, I determined I would make barrels for my A clarinet,
until I could come up with a better intonation pattern.
>
> A year later, and minimum 10 barrels, I believe I have come up with the
answer. (I also believe Hans Moennig came up with the same answer about 50
years ago).
>
> I made my barrel one millimeter longer than what I need to have in order
to play at A@-----. (It's also made of Cocobolo, instead of African Blackwood,
simply because I HAVE Cocobolo here, and I'm still waiting on my shipment of
African Blackwoood).
>
> While making this barrel, I slowly reamed the bore, from a starting
conical bore of 13 mm, to a linear reverse conical taper bore of 14.60 to
14.50.
>
> When I reached this point, the ugliest 12th, thumb F to C about the staff,
dropped into place.
>
> The rest of the horn preserved a fairly good intonation pattern.
>
> AND......The Tone was where I wanted it to be.
>
> Then, wonder of wonders, I tried the barrel on my Bb.
>
> And it WORKED.....best intonation scale and 12th I have ever had, and a
nice deep open tone that I was quite pleased with.
>
> Ironically, this barrel is the one I photographed and put on the web two
weeks ago as a gag.
>
> No, Roger, this is not a commercial. It took me about 2 weeks to get this
barrel right. If I make many for sale, I'll surely go broke.
>
> If you want to see the little gem, go to
>
> www.clarinetXpress.com/odds.html.
>
> (And yes, I am aware that that site was not operating last night).
>
> Anyway, I just wanted to share the good news.
>
> Walter
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