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Author: S.H.J.
Date: 2009-12-29 05:20
I was watching a video of Lang Lang playing the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto with Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, and I noticed that Wenzel Fuchs's barrel that had, like Backun "Traditional" Barrels, a wooden ring, but only on the bottom. It had a metal ring on the top.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh3NsZVOjq4
(Go to 6:06 for the clarinet solo)
Given that Fuchs uses Leister's old set of Wurlitzers, I'm guessing this is a design from Wurlitzer. But why a metal ring on the top? Doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of having a wooden ring design? Does playing outside have anything to do with it?
Also, does anyone know if Wurtlitzer makes ringless/traditional bells as well?
Post Edited (2009-12-29 22:39)
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Author: skygardener
Date: 2009-12-29 07:53
Mr. Fuchs is a very progressive person and is very interested in different designs and new ideas.
When I saw him recently (and a few years ago) in a masterclass, his barrel had both rings, so mayeb he was just trying this barrel out for a while.
Wurlitzer's "normal" design has rings on the barrels, but I would not be surprised if they sometimes make ringless barrels on request.
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Author: srattle
Date: 2009-12-29 08:53
Wenzel Fuchs is one of my teachers at the moment.
He seems to have many different barrel setups. Sometimes he seems to use normal ringed barrels with one or both of the metal rings removed.
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Author: BobD
Date: 2009-12-29 14:23
S.H.J. : If you hadn't forewarned me about it I would never have noticed it. And I had to pause the video at just the right spot to get a decent look. Maybe Fuchs is attempting to crack the barrell so he can justify a new one......or maybe the ring buzzes. Or.....
Bob Draznik
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Author: Lam
Date: 2009-12-29 16:04
I have seen Wenzel Fuchs used a Backun wooden ring barrel on his B-flat clarinet in the BPO concert (in digital concert hall), but he used traditional metal ring barrel on his A. and I believe that he has many different barrel setups, perhaps by different maker. But I don't think Wurlitzer make ringless barrel. but Dietz and Leitner and Kraus make them.
And the second clarinettist Alexander Bader is using a Barrel with the upper ring removed too, in contrast to the Fuch's one on youtube which had the lower ring removed.
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Author: S.H.J.
Date: 2009-12-30 20:33
Lam, did you mean Fuchs uses a Backun barrel or a barrel similar to it? And why would he have different types of barrels for his A clarinet?
Just out of plain curiosity, is there anyone who thinks metal-ring barrels are better than ringless or wooden-ring barrels?
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2009-12-30 21:56
Just like many other accessories, the ringless barrels can give you a slightly different sound.
I have been "trying out" a ringless "fat boy" from Alan Segal on my CSG for the last year now and still haven't totally convinced myself that it makes that much differece, however I switch back to it every time I attempt to go back to the factory barrel.
...........hmmmmmmmm..............
....................Paul Aviles
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Author: Lam
Date: 2009-12-31 05:52
I am not sure. but once I saw him using a barrel that looks exactly the same as the Backun Traditional Barrel (in blackwood), I can't figure out the brand name, but it looks exactly as a Backun traditional.so i suppose its made by Backun and is specially fit to his Wurlitzer and the German bore.
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