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Re: Barrel for sharp clarinet

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-07-10 10:53

AHS wrote:

> <snip>The only recent change (and in retrospect
> this happened at about the time that I noticed the tuning
> issue) was that I started using a Vandoren M-15 mouthpiece.
> is it possible that the mouthpiece
> is the source of my tuning problem?

Was the M-15 new or a second-hand online purchase (could it have been modified by a previous owner)?

Going back to your description of having to pull out "almost a centimeter," I don't see how a standard mouthpiece and a barrel of standard length on a Buffet E-45 could be so sharp as to need to be pulled out that much.

Do you still have whatever you were using before you got the M-15? Have you tried going back to it to compare the pitch it produces? Something isn't right about some component of the system. First suspicion is that either the mouthpiece or the barrel must be very much out of spec. What length is the barrel? How does the length of the mouthpiece compare to any others (including your old one, if you have it)?

A VD M-15 Traditional model will play sharper than an M-15 Series 13, but enough to require a 1 cm correction? Hard to believe. The Traditional blank was all that was available when the E-45 was being made.

You haven't said whether or not the setup actually plays in tune with itself (never mind a tuner or piano on A) with the barrel out almost a centimeter.

Karl

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