Klarinet Archive - Posting 000586.txt from 2003/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Boosey and Hawkes, take 2, and a question on barrels
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:46:24 -0500

At 08:37 AM 1/31/2003 -0700, Kaitlin Costello wrote:
>The more I read about this Click barrel the more it starts to bug me. I
>tried one of these click barrels with a borrowed wooden clarinet... I was
>horrified to find just how badly the barrel worked with my usual set up.
>Even more so with the faint buzzing that would not go away , despite
>numerous adjustments. It would seem that this is a barrel suited to
>plastic clarinets, rather then wooden.

Material the clarinet is made of is completely irrelevant in this
case. Did your mouthpiece fit tightly in the barrel? I suppose it is
POSSIBLE that the barrel itself was defective and had a loose, rattling
part. But since the clarinet itself was borrowed, a more likely
explanation is that there was something wrong with IT or a problem between
IT and your setup that was causing your problem and the barrel had little
or nothing to do with it.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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