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Author: Tony F
Date: 2013-01-24 09:55
I have 2 B & H instruments with slightly dodgy tuning. They are a hard rubber Emperor and a grenadilla 926 Imperial. They both play well with that lovely dark B & H sound, but they are both inclined to play flat. Fully pushed in and warmed up, they are just barely in tune, but there's absolutely no wriggle room on either one.
Tonight I was sorting the contents of my junk/gonna bin and I came across an old Penzel-Mueller Artist which I had decided was not worth fixing up. I noticed that the barrel was 2mm shorter than the B & H barrels and that the tenon dimensions are the same. The bore seems to be pretty close to the B & H barrels.
I cleaned it up, fitted it to both in turn and had a blow using the tuner. The overall sound produced is improved (to my ear) on both instruments, the 12ths are accurate, tuning overall is good with no major aberrations and most importantly both instruments are now in tune with about 1-1.5 mm pullout.
I have somewhere a set of plain silver barrel rings which will replace the original split P-M rings, and I'm now on the lookout for another old P-M barrel. Not the perfect solution, but one which will not require me to alter the original barrels.
Tony F.
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Author: Bill
Date: 2013-01-24 15:11
Excellent! Interesting remark about the sound of the B&Hs. I have a 1010 but I don't play it as often as I should.
Bill Fogle
Ellsworth, Maine
(formerly Washington, DC)
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2013-01-24 16:01
The PMs likely have a slightly narrower bore than the BHs, which will lower the freq. BUT the PMs that you have are are 2mm shorter, thus raising the freq. more than the bore diameter lowers it, so the NET effect works. Problem solved.
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
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