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 Re: The mysterious B clarinet
Author: crazyclari 
Date:   2023-03-23 02:00

Hi good question.
thanks for the interest.
I don't have the original. I have a number of older mouthpiece wooden etc.
Long story personally I have been using a playnick. I have bought a pair of Opuses and the Playnick is a bit flat in the altisimmo (Its perect on my old L300) so I have bought a Backun Met with a Zinner blank. I am getting Ed Pillinger to reface a Hawkins Zinner blank mouthpiece to the same specs.

The bit you are after the Playnick is flat on the top end, less even tuning wise through the mid-range and seems to exaggerate the extremely sharp A, G# and G. With either the original 67 or the 64mm barrel.

The Backun is pretty good and workable in the altisimmo, smooths out the mid-range and settles the sharp notes.
With either the original 67 or the 64mm barrel.

I tried a number of options and so far the Zinner blank is winning and provides playable tuning. Obviously the throat notes will go sharper with a shoooort barrel:) I have currently left the throat note as bit sharp until I get the mouthpieces back.

An earlier suggestion about small bore mouthpieces (Zinner) pushing up the pitch holds true for the altissimo, but as above. It has not raised the overall pitch of the horn.

Tuning wise the horn had a number of tuning problems which many are now much better. They were clearly from the factory and some possibly after. The throat notes were always very sharp and other generally side and trill keys were flat and out of tune with the notes around them. My goal with all mods has been to fix the inherent tuning problems, you cannot make high pitch horn play functionally at low pitch.

Its a fun horn to play like a C clarinet in that they tooot out.:)
Cheers
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