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Re: Why oil the barrel of a clarinet?

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2019-10-30 21:19

Well if you wish to penetrate the wood using oil you can use a vacuum system which puts out the max of about 28 pounds per square inch, the perfect vacuum and kind of forced a bit of oil inside of the bore. A 5 minute treatment won't work and a one day vacuum treatment probably won't work either. But the next question is why would we spend $500 to $20,000 for this system? I'm just letting readers know you can penetrate the bore of a barrel and the actual horn. This will force oil into the tight wood. Just measure the weight of the barrel before and after this treatment, then you will know how well it works. A good barrel can be hard to fine, one that is tapered correctly, but surely not expensive. This taper gets complicated fast. It has to do with the mouthpiece and the clarinet. So it's best to have a mouthpiece you don't ever want to change, because it's that good. Then you can adjust your horns with the right barrel taper.

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