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Re: The Barrel Question

Author: DAVE
Date: 2003-04-04 03:48

For a great reading about accoustics including Bernoulli forces, read "Fundamentals of Musical Accoustics" by Daniel Benade.
I have suffered great woes in the past because of switching bells. Long ago, I put my A bell on my B flat to "help" the tuning. Well, I completely forgot that I had done that, and since my Leblanc Concertos were identical, I just never noticed. After much agony with the pitch on both instruments going on for maybe a year, I noticed the bells were different lengths. Well, whadyaknow!! I switched the bells and most of the problems were gone. Who knew bells made such a difference? BTW, the bells that Muncy makes are really neat to play on.
Most recently, after giving up on Leblanc and rejoining the Buffet Mafia, I have been dealing with barrel issues. I really liked the barrels that came with the horns when I got them. But, being on a constant search for something better, I have played a few Chadashes and Moenigs each for months at a time. The tone in general on the Chadash barrels is good but a little thinner than the Moenigs. Every barrel has its own inherent tuning pros and cons. The intersting thing for me is my A. The throat A on my A clarinet was a little flat when I bought it. Francois Kloc raised the pitch on it for me and all was better UNTIL I started using the "better" barrels. I have had the hardest time with that same note that Francois fixed since I changed barrels. So in essence, I exchanged good tuning for a "darker" tone. Well I went back to the original barrel and the tuning is just fine and in many ways the tone on the original barrels is just "sweeter" and more flexable.

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