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Buffet International clarinet help

Author: dabrockli
Date: 2016-01-06 07:18

this is my first post here, but i've used this website in the past to find a lot of information on clarinets and my clarinet.

I am a music education major and I hope to be a doubler a little after I graduate. I play on a buffet international clarinet. I believe this is an intermediate clarinet but I get all types of opinions so I'm not really sure. Anyways, my professor has told me numerous times that I'm in need of a professional clarinet, unfortunately right now its just not in the budget so I have to make do with what I have for the next few months. I knew that it needed to be overhauled because i was the second person in my family to have used it and it probably needed some tlc. I took it to a place in philly and basically I was told that the intonation of the instrument was off being that the longer I played the sharper I got. I was able to stabilize the pitch for most of the notes but he said my e/b key was a lost cause as I was very sharp on those notes. but like i said, i can't afford to get a new clarinet right now. So I took it in to my local music shop to get it overhauled, was that a good choice? Will putting money into a clarinet that may or may not be fixable (thats what the repair guy in philly told me) be worth it?

I was also wondering if maybe by getting a new barrel/bell/mouthpiece would that help my intonation? I was looking at backun barrels but I wasn't sure of what size would fit the international.

I play on a vandoren series 13 m15 mouthpiece with vandoren v12 strength 4 reeds and the barrel/bell that came with the clarinet (if that matters)

sorry for the long post and maybe extra information that wasn't needed..kinda on a time crunch because i need to figure something out being I go back to school on the 17th.

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