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Author: SGTClarinet_7
Date: 2004-10-21 12:07
I have 2 questions concerning this. What is the length of this barrel? It says R13 B 660 on it. Does this mean it is 66 mm? The other one is this. On my greenline the barrel doesn't go on all the way. It leaves about .75 - 1 mm space and this appears to throw off my intonation. Do I need to get another barrel or is there another solution to my problem? Thanks!
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Author: OpusII
Date: 2004-10-21 12:38
SGRClarinet_7,
You're right concerning the length of your barrel, 660 means 66mm.
Strange, never saw a greenline that didn't fit 100%. You don't need to get a new barrel, go back to the place where you bought your instrument. They will probably sand the joint so that the barrel will fit.
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Author: msloss
Date: 2004-10-21 14:30
Greenlines are dimensionally pretty stable, and it is unlikely they got the dimensions of the tenon or the socket wrong in manufacture. Check the cork first before doing anything you can't reverse. Also, try the barrel on someone else's clarinet. If you do have to sand/cut, better be sure it is not the $100 barrel vs. the $1000 top joint.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2004-10-21 14:52
Msloss is absolutely right. If you shorten the top tenon of your upper joint, you can never use another barrel -- it will be loose, and there will be a big gap that throws the intonation off. Have the barrel replaced, or at least have the bottom socket deepened to the standard measurement.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: OpusII
Date: 2004-10-21 15:33
Ken Shaw,
I didn't mean shorten the tenon, sorry if you misunderstood me. I just tought that the cork was to thick, or that there maybe some kind of glue residue on the outside of the tenon is….
But as said before, go back to the shop and let the tech. handle it!
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Author: hard_reed
Date: 2004-10-21 16:51
I had/have a similar problem on my Greenline with some barrels. The problem is that the bottom piece of material comprising the tenon of the upper joint (the part below the tenon cork) is marginally of greater diameter than the material on the top of the tenon (the part above the tenon cork). The net result is that some barrels do not go all the way down - if their socket is wide enough to accomodate the wider tenon width at the bottom of the tenon, they will make it, if not, they stop short. Forcing a barrel on could result in a jammed barrel.
The 66mm barrel supplied with the horn did go all the way down - I discovered the problem when I tried to use 66mm Chadash and other barrels that fit my wood R13 fine. Since I wanted a Chadash barrel to replace the stock barrel that came with the horn, I explained the problem to Guy Chadash and he made me a barrel that fit perfectly. (He also suggested that I could have the bottom sockets of my other barrels widened to fit the Greenline, but I chose not to as they would then probably be too loose a fit for the regular wood R13.)
hard_reed
Post Edited (2004-10-21 17:07)
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Author: Kev
Date: 2004-10-22 05:39
I've got the exact same problem on my non-Greenline R-13 with the stock 66mm barrel. This manufacturing error isn't limited to Greenlines.
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