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Extrememly sharp!

Author: PJ
Date: 2003-03-30 22:01

Hi all!

I bought my current Bb/A set about 10 years ago in college and they are Buffet R-13's. I've had many great years of play out of them and with regular maintainence have seen them work wonderfully. I know that due to the nature of the wood (all woods, actually) that the horns will go through periods of shrinking and swelling over time until they begin to slow down somewhat.

A while back I noticed my Bb began to play a little sharp. At first, one might assume that it was the player and not the horn. Given this, I checked to make sure that I wasn't biting down, air support was good and all that. Next, I got out my A and warmed it up. It was dead on "0" all they way through the horn with only the little discrepencies it always has on certain notes. I've tried a longer barrel on my Bb and it seemed to do the trick until I noticed it going up again. At the present time it is playing 20 cents sharp on a 67mm barrel! I had a collegue of mine play it with their set up and mine to see if they got the same results and they did. A 68mm barrel brought it down quite a bit, but come on...a 68??? That's not going to solve every note and I can't lip it down THAT much.

For the repair folks on the board, is it possible for my Bb to have shrunk this much? Also, is there something else I should look for that I may be missing that would cause this to happen? Like I said, it is sharp all they way up and down with the exception of a couple of notes being closer to "0" than others.

Should I ditch the horn and look into a new one? (Please tell me this is not so!).

Thanks in advance for any help,

PJ

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