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RE: Barrels?

Author: HIROSHI
Date: 1999-07-21 04:00

I used to use a DEG barrel considering its feature to dispeerse heat through its fins and avoid expansion of its bore.I misunderstood that was the special barrels' main ppurposes.But I came across a good presentation by Mr.Hite on Moennig barrels in http://www.jdhite.com/mouthpieces/shop1.htm, I became quite interested and decided to try one. When I bought Greg Smith mouthpiece and Chadash Barrel adjusted with each other by Greg,and testing the sets of Greg mouthpiece plus Chadash barrel and Greg mouthpiece plus my stock barrel,I really knew what difference a good barrel will bring to my clarinet tones. I think you know a tone such as C1 consists of harmonics elements,namely primary C1 basic tone,and other harmonics.The tone with a Chadash barrel made my tones obviously more complicated mixing of harmonics,whereas with a stock barrel,my tones seemed more monotonous.
I have never tried Moennig ones.Some people say in this BBS that Moennig's tones are somewhat darker than Chadash's. So,my recommendations are,:
1)Yes good barrels will surely bring good things,
2)Better to buy a barrel with a good mouthpiece adjusted together(provably reamered).But in this case,you cannot try 2-3 barrels since they are strictly reamered with a specific mouthpice.
3)If you buy a barrel from remote sources,barrel should be adjusted to fit the upper joint of your clarinet by an experienced repairman.

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