Klarinet Archive - Posting 000702.txt from 2003/04

From: forestaten@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Necks and barrels
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:40:38 -0400

Bass clarinet necks are very, very important. If you are serious about playing
you have to find a distibution point and try as many as you can.

Forest Aten
> In a message dated 4/18/2003 9:22:39 AM Eastern Standard Time, gkidder@-----.org
> writes:
>
> > We have had a lot of discussion recently about the influence of minute
> variations in the diameter and shape of barrels on the sound quality and
> intonation, all related to the soprano clarinet. Walter Grabner says 0.01 mm can
> be important in a soprano clarinet barrel, although I don't know how he could
> measure this without a microscope.>>
>
> I use a Vernier caliper, which is accurate to .01 mm. In this line of work, if
> you can't be accurate to .01 mm. forget it!
>
> > a barrel with a different twist, so to speak - the neck on a bass clarinet
> which roughly occupies the position of the barrel on a soprano clarinet.>>
>
> As far as I know, there has been VERY little research on necks. Charles Bay
> makes replacement necks, some of them VERY EXCELLENT, so maybe he has. I doubt
> he'll share his measurements here, however.
>
> There are necks, and necks, Mike Lowenstern has been quoted as saying one should
> try as many necks as possible, some are very good, some are quite bad. How to do
> this, unless you visit the factory, is quite a question in my mind.
>
> Walter
>
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