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RE: Question about A clarinet

Author: Paul Harris
Date: 2002-07-31 05:43

One way to help in changeing the mouthpiece from clarinet to clarinet in a hurry(useing the same mouth piece for both horns), is to change mouth piece and barrel as a unit. If your clarinets are matched and tuned, you probably can use the same barrel on both instruments. I know that the Selmer Recitals that I play have the same bore size at the barrel on both the A and Bb. (I checked using inside micrometers)
Also the instruments match well enough that the same barrel pull puts both instruments in the same range of tuning.
New from the factory, this wasn't the case, but a good tech man was able to make is so. So back to your orginal question, I think that matching your present Bb instrument if you are happy with the way it performs is the most logical route to take, and then having the chariture of the instrument matched to your present horn by a qualified professional tech person. In otherwords, if your are happy with your Buffet (heaven forbid) then by all means get another Buffet of the same model pitched in A. Have it worked to play the same as your Bb and switch mouthpiece and barrels together when you change in the orchestra. This will be as fast as the mouthpiece by itself and you still can use any ligature that you like. If the music goes by fast enough that you can't make the change this way, the only other solution is to transpose the music to one or the other clarinets (This is done fairly frequently).

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