Klarinet Archive - Posting 000250.txt from 2003/08

From: "Dan Arsenault" <danarsenault@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Chadash Barrels
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 11:34:35 -0400

> The site implies that Chadash barrels are mass produced - in the sense
> that one buys a ready made one rather than any implication of huge
> production runs. Yet I have a race memory of talking to someone who took
> his clarinet to Guy and had a barrel made specifically for that very
> instrument.

They are normal Buffet barrels modified by Guy hiself on his lathe. When I
visited him he had several boxes stacked up from Buffet of barrels awaiting
his touch.

>
> Given that I will be in New York for five days in September I thought
> this might have been the opportunity for the latter.....
>
> So what is the score? It is of course quite possible that both are true!
> And does anyone know any reason why one of these barrels is unsuited to
> the RC (I'm aware that there is a strong preference to the R-13 over
> there!) He just deals with the Bb/A?
>

I found a visit well worth my time and money. Guy drilled out my stock
Buffet R-13 barrel and glued in a tube of mouthpiece material. He then
modified that while I played each pass. The result was incredible. Power and
tone as I never thought possible, even though I was playing on a Clark Fobes
San Francisco mouthpiece that I had just bout and had about 5 minutes of
playing time on.

> Finally does anyone have a working email address for him?
>
> Matthew Lloyd
>
>

I think the address work, but he is busy like you would not believe. I think
I was extraodinarily lucky to be driving through Connecticut on my was to
NYC and get him by cell. He agreed to see me that day after confirming that
I did indeed have my stock 66mm barrel with me.
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