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Re: Comparing Buffet E13 and R13 barrels

Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2010-12-01 17:34

Every barrel is slightly --or greatly-- different. The only way, in my experience, to pick a barrel is to try it out.

A custom barrel maker may have other methods of adapting a barrel's bore to your playing and instrument, but I have yet to try that.

Go ahead and borrow an R13 barrel and try it out.

Because those whom I pay to listen to me like its sound, I use an R16-1/2 A442 barrel on my Buffet RC and pull it out a couple of mm to tune to A440. I also have to pull out at the center joint about 1-1/2 mm to bring the right hand clarion closer to being in tune --as they tend to be sharp.

Bob Phillips

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