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New Clarinet Barrel

Author: Aaron7175
Date: 2014-02-08 05:51

I am a high school clarinet player and have been playing since middle school. A year ago I bought a new Yamaha advantage 400 ad clarinet because I needed something better and it was the only one I could afford that I thought would be worth the money. I have been really pleased with it overall however I am always tuning really sharp. My private teacher says that often times student model clarinets have shorter barrels To compensate for bad embouchure of beginning studentss , but he was surprised that my barrel was like that. My barrel is a 65mm barrel. From what little I've read it seems that is a little short. I have to pull out the barrel to the bottom of the cork and I still have have to pull the two middle joints apart a little bit, my A, Bb and G# are still a little sharp. I don't like pulling out the barrel any farther because I feel like it sounds a little off when I do that. At first it didn't bug me very much, but now I've improved a lot over the last year and during an honor band the tuning issue was really frustrating. My teacher is encouraging me to buy a new barrel, but I don't know much about the different kinds. I've been looking at the Backun barrels, but they have several different styles. Is there something specific I should know and would a 66 or 67mm better?

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