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Chadash Barrel

Author: A Brady
Date: 2010-03-02 18:51

I stopped by Guy Chadash's shop yesterday to pick up a new 67 mm barrel to use with my recently acquired Kaspar mouthpiece; Guy had an excellent ringless model for me (the same style he puts on his hand-made instruments), which tunes and sounds great with the Kaspar. He also did some adjustments to my R-13 B-Flat (which he had overhauled/replaced the bore of a couple of years earlier). I told him that this was the best money I had ever spent on gear, as the clarinet continues to produce a marvelous, centered and ringing sound after the work, and was very "blown-out" indeed prior to it.

Artisans like Guy are rare indeed in these mass-produced times; a visit to his small shop in NYC can be a very cool experience (I met Burt Hara, in town to play at Carnegie Hall with the Minnesota Orchestra, who was leaving as I arrived), and Guy's clarinets and restoration work are second to none.

I am not a paid endorser, just a very satisfied client.

Alan Brady

AB

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