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Re: New Clarinet Plays Flat?

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-02-22 05:05

Uh, no, not a lemon - but.....

These clarinets went through a testing period before being marketed here in the States. Apparently all the clarinetists they pole must have played naturally sharp. So the barrel that comes with the original CSG is the 56.5mm (or something like that) and it is for the most part too long. You can order Yamaha 53.6mm (or something like that - the shortest barrel) that will work fine. I also got a custom barrel from Dr. Alan Segal of this Bulletin Board of 54mm that is just terrific.

It would also help to use a sharper mouthpiece (if your daughter uses a Vandoren M series or 13 Series mouthpiece, moving to a "Standard Pitch" mouthpiece will also do the trick).

These are WONDERFUL clarinets that are beautifully in tune (across the scale that is, moving from note to note), so you DID get a great horn.

Oh, one other thing to be aware of. The pads are amazing until they start to wear out (with really heavy use this could be as short as a year). They will fail around the plastic buttons you see at the center of each pad. This makes it much harder to see the failure and harder to diagnose. Just switch out with cork on the upper joint and triple fish-skin pads on the bottom once this begins to happen.

..............Paul Aviles

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New Clarinet Plays Flat? new

kevin_bkt

2015-02-22 04:39

Re: New Clarinet Plays Flat? new

Paul Aviles

2015-02-22 05:05