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Author: Dee
Date: 2002-05-11 12:52
Depends. Many of the American made Albert system clarinets will take the same standard barrel and standard mouthpiece as our modern Boehm clarinets. So go to a clarinet repair store and try some out from the repairman's stock.
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Author: biginner
Date: 2004-03-27 00:07
I know that the parts of a clarinet are the ligatures,mouthpice,horn,barrel and the reed but what are the other patrs called?
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Author: Michael Papacharalambous
Date: 2005-03-29 02:59
For all clarinets including the Albert / Simple or German system clarinets as well as the Boehm the sections are named accordingly starting from the top: 1. mouthpiece (interchangeable across all clarinets of the same pitch, ie. Bb), 2. barrel (you are able to buy different lengths of these to adjust the tuning, or buy a 2nd barrel and have an instrument repairer or fitter & turner cut it down for you to say 2&1/2 inch or you can buy the Click brand barrel which has 6 length adjustments for it - very versatile), 3. upper (L) hand joint, 4. lower (R) hand joint & 5. bell. It most instances given the age of most albert systems, trying to find identical parts is next to impossible. Certainly the mouthpiece, barrel and bell you can change readily (use the boehm brands) and buy these parts brand new anywhere. The problem comes with parts for the upper and lower hand joints. You can replace pads, posts and springs easily (an instrument repairer can do this for you), however for actual keys or replacement part, it is very difficult. Any cracks through the wood can be glued together or at a higher cost, you can have the cracks pinned. Pinning the cracks should be done especially if the cracks have gone right through the bore and you are experiencing leaking through the cracks. Otherwise you may have to accept defeat and try and buy another albert system. Ebay is a good start however you have to avoid alot of crap they sell. Anything good i find ends up selling at a ridiculous price due to the demand and rare availability of them. I have an albert clarinet in the key of C which ive had next to no luck in getting any replacement key parts. Even through extensive overhauling, due to the age and damage being so great, its done little to restore the sound. Ive got a few parts off of a JW Pepper Albert system, but its in High Pitch that you may be interested in. Restoring the instrument will prove too costly and given its HP i wont use it anywhere.
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