Klarinet Archive - Posting 000305.txt from 2003/02

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Bundy 577 as second clarinet
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:20:35 -0500

In a message dated 2/9/2003 11:49:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, estuart@-----.net writes:

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> I currently playing on a Bundy 577 with a Hite mouthpiece and a DEG barrel.
> This is my only instrument. ................. I had high hopes of using my
> 577 as my second clarinet, once I purchase an R13, but I've found that the
> upper joint open hole notes are approximately a quarter step sharp.>>

I am not sure what you mean when you say the "open hole notes" so possibly I can't be very helpful.

If you still have it, however, I would test the clarinet with the original barrel. Even though I make and sell "replacement" barrels, I will state my belief that the best barrel for a givne clarinet is the one that came with it.

Do to varing bore sizes, barrels are NOT always interchangeable from one clarinet to another, even if the tenons do accomodate each other.

Why don't you test the intonation with the original barrel, then get back to us with the results?

Walter Grabner
www.clarinetXpress.com
mouthpieces, barrels, repairs

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