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Re: Why don't barrel vendors provide bore measurements?

Author: Alseg
Date: 2017-05-21 20:06

Disclaimer: I make and sell custom made barrels. I make them one at a time with hand reaming techniques, so they are not standardized.

I sometimes provide the measurements to the client who has purchased a barrel from me when it is ready to ship.
I do not publish them because The measurements vary depending upon many factors that I consider when making the barrel:

1. the mouthpiece used. (entry bore)
2. the style of music that the client plays.(backboring of the exit may be used in certain circumstances)
3.the intonation tendencies of the clients' instrument
4.the wood species chose
5.where I choose to place the zone of steepest inclination
6.Sometimes I will overbore a given specimen slightly (thousandth of an inch) knowing that it will narrow during shipping depending on the climate and the wood.

FWIW The Morse taper (#1 or #2) is **DEFINITELY NOT** the standard taper dimension for most taper barrels that I have seen, and that includes some older specimens.
Hope this helps.

Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-

Post Edited (2017-05-23 17:15)

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