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RE: "A" barrel

Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-02-02 18:12

Lelia wrote:
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<br>After some people on the "klarinet" mailing list described the string-down-the-barrel trick, I tried it out on my best B-flat clarinet a 1937 Buffet, to see if I could lower the pitch to A. Maybe I did something wrong, but the results were unsatisfactory.
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<br>I don't think you did anything wrong. I've never had what I would ever consider "satisfactory" results, only that "works" (after a fashion). My guess is that any tradeoffs in the clarinet made to get reasonably good intonation in the correct key are amplified (in various ways & fashions, and always in the wrong direction). The "string trick" is more of an academic exercise to show that bore diameter affects pitch.

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