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Re: Vintage Selmers, short barrels

Author: ghuba
Date: 2006-01-09 08:23

I have talked to several high end, after market sellers of after-market barrels about creating some custom barrels for older Selmer big-bore clarinets (BT, CT, K, L, M, N, etc.). The consensus seems to be that each horn will need to be custom fitted as the tenon sizes on 60+ year old tenons will be some what idiosyncratic both due to manufacturing issues then and changes in the wood after this amount of time. I am planning on having a couple of these older horns I own fit with such barrels in the hopes of improving their tuning.

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