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Author: Gretchen
Date: 2001-05-20 16:26
While browsing Ebay this morning I found a Buffet S1 A clarinet. Also included are two extra barrels which the ad claims will convert the A clarinet to a Bb clarinet!!! I want one of these barrels badly! Imagine the costs that can be saved if all of us orchestral players only needed one clarinet and an extra barrel!
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Author: Dee
Date: 2001-05-20 17:29
No there is no magic barrel. It is simply a case of an ignorant seller. Some people simply need longer or shorter barrels to be in tune at the pitch the instrument is designed to.
If you try to change the pitch that dramatically with a barrel alone, the clarinet will be out of tune with itself as the hole to hole spacing, etc will be wrong.
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Author: Mrdi
Date: 2001-05-20 18:27
I have them for sale $100 US.
No warranty written or implied, If you try to warranty these the magic goes away. The only requirement for them to operate in tune is that you have the faith.
I may be contacted at Mrdi2002@yahoo.com. Please send cash or rosewood LeBlancs.
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Author: mw
Date: 2001-05-20 20:20
Of course you should all be careful ... someone might STRING you along. mw
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Author: jerry
Date: 2001-05-21 01:00
If there was such a barrel, would it be called the Mojo Barrel?
I need one that gets my playing *right*.........wud be worth a fortune.
~ jerry
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Author: UH
Date: 2001-05-21 06:37
Yea, watch out. they might STRING you along the way.... <---string? LOL
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Author: willie
Date: 2001-05-21 07:26
Hmmm! Maybe if I can score a few feet of black PVC pipe, I can have an instant bass clarinet, or even a contra.
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Author: ron b
Date: 2001-05-21 08:08
Hey, tahnks Gretch !
I gotta git me wunna them too! Itll save ya a lotta headak hedake headdac - i mean stress :|
you no, wen ya play em inna band leik willie duz
- ron b -
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Author: David Spiegelthal
Date: 2001-05-21 14:59
I'm looking for a Magic Bass Clarinet Neck to turn my Bb bass into an A bass for those nasty Mahler, etc. bass clarinet parts in A. I'll pay top dollar for such a neck. Anybody got one?
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Author: mw
Date: 2001-05-21 19:25
Does (Magic) ROPE in a Bass Clarinet turn it into a Contra-Bass Clarinet???
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Author: Stephen Froehlich
Date: 2001-05-21 20:03
Is there even such a thing as a bass clarinet in A? A Contra alto in D? I'd espically love to see a paperclip, extended A contra.
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Author: David Spiegelthal
Date: 2001-05-22 16:12
Supposedly a few bass clarinets in "A" have been made. I recall reading somewhere that Dan Leeson actually owns one, and that perhaps there exist something like 6 of them in the U.S. At any rate, none of us mere mortals is likely to ever have an "A" bass clarinet in our possession, so when we're forced to play pieces written for it (like that %@^!@*$!*%*# Ravel La Valse), we are forced to transpose the half-step by sight (yeah, right!), or spend many worthless hours rewriting the part for a real instrument in Bb. I'd love to know what was going through the brains of Mssrs. Ravel, Mahler, et al when they wrote parts for bass clarinet in "A".........
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Author: Roger
Date: 2001-05-23 11:45
Make it worse---Base clarinet in A written on the base cleff
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2001-05-24 12:11
A neck for turning a Bb bass to an A bass......
Of course the length adjustment will need to be different for each note.
I'm picturing a neck with a tuning slide moved by a battery-operated, electronically-controlled, stepping motor. A minimicrophone listens to the note you play, the electronics decides what it should be adjusted to, and then operates the motor to adjust the tuning before the ear notices what has occurred. Flick a switch to play in C, or B, or in tune with an oboe! Perfect tuning all the time! 
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