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Re: New Clarinet Plays Flat?

Author: Kenton153
Date: 2015-03-04 10:30

I've never heard of a barrel being modified.
As for the instrument, I played one of these horns for 2 years. I used a rico reserve XO and it played beautiful. Intonation is one of its greatest attrributes. I cannot possibly imagine that yamaha would make a factory mistake like that.
Here is why i say this: The tolerances that these instruments are made at is truly incredilble. Also, they are play tested right in front of a chromatic tuner before
they even leave the factory. In the factory, they most certainly use a mouthpiece that the instrument is designed to work best with. It would not leave the factory in the condition you described.
You mentioned a "yamaha artist" that camee to play the instrument. Unless some actual proof was showed of that, it very well coulld have been any clarinet player. Even someone in the shop.
There is a good chance that the person who played your clarinet had one of the mouthpieces mentioned above that had intonation differencies with that instrument. Those mouthpieces are VERY common.
I had to buy a barrel that was longer actually, (57.5) i had it made by Clark Fobes, and it plays no differently to my ear OTHER than the fact that it played perfectly in tune. That was all I wanted from it and it was great.
I now play on different instruments, and my CSG is somewhere on the second hand market. Probably Washington Music Center.

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