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Re: Selmer RI intonation

Author: Chris P
Date: 2020-11-20 20:26

Some RIs have a metal lined barrel that telescopes into the top joint - there's a considerable step in the top joint bore to accommodate the metal tuning slide as that leaves much less of a gap than the gap you get between the end of the socket on a regular barrel and the top joint tenon.

I have one that's had this void filled in with an ebonite sleeve so a regular (unlined) barrel can be used and have seen others with the metal lined barrel.

See if filling in the void in the top joint tenon will help the tuning - make a plastic sleeve with a 15mm bore and a good fit in the tenon so it doesn't rattle about.

Barrels shorter than 65mm are too short for older Selmers if you have established clarinet chops - if it's 63mm or less, chances are that was shortened for a sax player that doubles on clarinet but hasn't got clarinet chops as that's usually the case.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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