Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2020-07-11 22:23
> ...I'm
> interested to try the Backun CG Vocalise which there isn't a
> 442Hz model of It.. So, from now I'm thinking, what I should do
> If I like It much, I want to use It exclusively and the overall
> pitch goes to 440Hz??
Interesting. This isn't the way I'd go about choosing a mouthpiece, but everyone has his own way of doing things. Backun has a number of other models, including the regular (non glass) Vocalise that are offered at 440 and 442. Where are you that the local standard pitch is 442 Hz? Is there something about the way a glass/crystal mouthpiece plays that you specifically like?
> I know one of my teacher's students who
> bought a Backun bell and barrel to use(just for sound upgrade)
> on his Buffet RC clarinet and he thought that he had better
> sound by using these, but sometime on a recording, teacher
> noticed the sound on low notes A-G-F-E wasn't that
> good(homogeneous)..
I wonder if it was just the sound itself that the teacher didn't like, that it was only more obvious on those bottom few notes. Did the student ever try separating the two - just the Backun bell with the original barrel and just the Backun barrel with the stock bell? It would be important to know if it was the combination or just one of the two that caused the problem.
> so, he told him to start using the stock
> clarinet's barrel and bell, when he did, the sound became much
> better,
which shows that *sometimes* the original (stock) equipment works better - it was all designed together.
> that's why I ask what to use for only changing the
> overall pitch and not the sound... I'm either thinking to get
> an adjustable barrel or a same stock Buffet 64mm or 63mm
> barrel..
This is an area where the only real answer will come from experimenting. The barrel least likely to affect the basic tone color is probably the shorter Buffet one. Barrels differ from one to the other, even from the same production line, but staying with the same manufacturer seems like it would as close to the original as you can get. How barrels and bells will react depends on a lot of variables and the total result really isn't very predictable.
Repeating my question from earlier in this post - why do you need to play at A=442 Hz? Are you living and studying in an area of the world where the orchestras and bands tune that way?
Karl
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