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Re: Chadash rough interior

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2007-09-25 20:53

Liquorice -

Two reasons, I think. The first is that the adjustment of a barrel's bore is critical work. When you get it playing just right, you stop working, even if it doesn't look perfect. I have several handmade barrels by Kalmen Opperman, and none of them has a polished bore. In fact, one has a chunk dug out in the middle. Kal said he had learned to leave well enough alone, and that if he tried to make a barrel look perfect as well as play perfect, he'd ruin more than he improved.

Second, people with credible expertise say that wood with low density and large pores plays better, even though it's not shiny. See, for example, Alvin Swiney's posting at http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Klarinet/1999/05/000596.txt and David Hite's at http://urd.cyberstreet.com/jdhite/mouthpieces/shop1.htm.

Ken Shaw

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