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Author: clarinetfreak
Date: 2001-10-10 05:24
I have a tuning ring that is stuck to my barrel. Do any of you have suggestions as to getting them out? Thanks
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Author: Terry Horlick
Date: 2001-10-10 14:47
If you include your address we can contact you off Phorum.
I would use a dental explorer (I'm a dentist) or the tip of a very sharp pocket knife and gently lift it out. Be very careful to avoid touching the bore and don't pry it. Prying or jabbing with the knife will damage the barrel.
You could take it to a repair person.
After you free the thing up I suggest using a little sandpaper or maybe a nail file and slightly reduce the outside diameter of the tuning ring so you do't have to play this game again. It could also be just adhereing to old cork grease in the barrel's end mortise, I suggest cleaning out the barrel once the thing is out.
I watch folks use these things and wonder why. I have always just pulled the barrel out over the last 40 years and not had a problem. What to those tuning rings do? Do they change the sound? If so wouldn't it be desireable to use an inside micrometer to measure your barrel and then match an exact same bore ring?
Terry
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Author: Dee
Date: 2001-10-10 15:47
The tuning rings keep it from creeping back together while playing. My daughter had a problem with that.
Also there are some people who believe that the internal step created when pulling the barrel has a detrimental effect on the sound although it's never seemed that way to me. Hypothetically then you would want the rings to be an exact match but a close match seems to satisfy most people.
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Author: clarinetfreak
Date: 2001-10-11 01:16
Thanks for the suggestions.
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Author: kburnett@neoone.com.au
Date: 2001-10-11 08:17
When you pull the barrel to lower the general pitch of the instrument the gap created between the barrel socket and upper tenon will disproportionately lower the throat notes, hence the use of "tuning" rings to fill this gap.
In my experience, the best tuning rings from a practical standpoint are metal and cut so that the outside diameter of the ring clears the socket wall comfortably, while the inside diameter is big enough so that it will clear the bore edge if the ring is off-centre.
Because the metal ring has some weight and isn't wedged into place it can easily be dislodged by giving the barrel a sharp tap on the palm of the hand, and, if ithe ring does stick, you've plenty of room to manoeuvre your probe of choice without damaging the bore.
This kind of ring can also be used in the centre joint of the clarinet.
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