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Re: Super Sharp Altissimo on A clarinet!

Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2014-10-24 19:44

The problem you will run into when you play around with the tone holes is that if you do fix your high notes it will likely effect everything below that is good now. You could try some new barrels to see if that might work, trial and error. Keeping the first finger in the LH on half the hole might bring down the pitch too but that will be awkward for everything. It should to me that if a different barrel, with a different taper, not size, doesn't work it's probably a bore problem that you will never get corrected to your satisfaction.
When I had my first Buffet my high B and C were very sharp and I took it to all the "experts" of the day and no one was able to fix it well enough to play professionally so I had to buy a new one, that wasn't sharp on those notes.

ESP eddiesclarinet.com

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