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Author: Buster Brown
Date: 2016-10-25 17:00
I saw a metal barrel last night. It consisted of concentric metal plates attached to metal cylinder. It was claimed it dissipated heat from the plates, and therefore kept your from going sharp during a performance. Couldn't see who made it. Anyone ever see one? I was told they are no longer made. It looked "interesting".
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Author: kdk
Date: 2016-10-25 18:03
Buster Brown wrote:
> It was claimed it
> dissipated heat from the plates, and therefore kept your from
> going sharp during a performance.
I guess it depends on how much of the pitch change is caused by changes in the barrel.
Karl
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Author: donald
Date: 2016-10-26 15:29
"consisted of concentric metal plates attached to metal cylinder". I suppose it LOOKS like that, but it's really just all one bit of metal shaped on a lathe. Quite easy to make acutally- a guy here in NZ copied them in the early 2000s and was able to produce them for about $20 (US$) and it took him about 5/10 min per barrel. I knew a pro musician (2nd clarinet in the Philharmonia) who used one in the early 1990s...
For the record, I actually quite like the sound of the aluminum barrels, for a while I had an DEG Eddie Daniels one floating around, but sold that to a student to use on his E11. He performed the Mozart Concerto on it, and sounded pretty good for a 16 year old...
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Author: Sean.Perrin
Date: 2016-10-28 20:55
On a similar note I have a VERY cool metal barrel with Delrin interior I'll be reviewing soon on my blog.
It's from Wes Rice Works and MAN is it ever cool and SUPER loud.
Founder and host of the Clarineat Podcast: http://www.clarineat.com
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