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Re: Help?

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2023-01-16 19:26

Vxers wrote:

> In college I switched to this mouthpiece
> and it helped with tuning of my middle joint so I don't have to
> pull out as much. Now I need help with the tuning of the
> barrel. I usually pull out to where the cork barely shows to
> help me be in tune in a standard 440 setting.

Getting a Fobes barrel as ruben suggests might help, but you still need to work out what length you need.

I'm not sure what you mean by "tuning of my middle joint." Depending on what that means, "tuning of the barrel" may have different meanings as well.

A longer barrel, all other things being kept the same, will lower the pitch of the shortest-tube notes - "throat" notes - the most. So, if your throat notes are already in tune, you may flatten them too much with a longer barrel.

When you "pull out to where the cork barely shows" what note are you tuning? If your [B4]