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Barrels: What do they do?

Author: bethmhil
Date: 2013-10-27 05:31

So, I've been living with some fairly bad intonation problems on my Tosca for some time. From what I understand, it is the natural tendency of the clarinet to go sharp in the low to middle clarion register (C# to F or G). I vent like crazy, but it is still a problem-- that area of the range still runs around 20 cents higher than everything else. I am constantly pulling out and pushing in, since pulling out too much makes the chalumeau register way flat. I feel like I'm going crazy!

I know that barrels can do this and that for tone, but... in terms of bore characteristics, is there a barrel that could fix this problem? For example, what does the Buffet Chadash barrel and its reverse cone taper do? I just play on a 66mm Tosca barrel... but I'm nervous about switching to a 67mm R13 barrel, because that risks making the low notes flat. Any solutions?

BMH
Illinois State University, BME and BM Performance

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2013-10-27 05:31