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Mouthpiece/barreladvice please

Author: west-wind
Date: 2010-12-02 20:06

I recently bought a Lucian Bassi Albert system clarinet, on receiving it i discovered that the barrel socket for the mouthpiece was very small, just under 22mm diameter; initially I thought I would have to track down some german style mouthpieces or have the tenons on some of mine reduced.

However, in order to try out the instrument I discovered that the barrel from my ebonite hanson more or less fitted, there is a small gap between the barrel and body due to the shorter socket on this barrel, when fitted the length of the barrel is the same as the original.

I tried a few mouthpieces and discovered that the intonation was very good with a couple of different mouthpieces giving equally acceptable results. It struck me that rather than trying to track down, or adjust mouthppieces, I could have the barrel socket opened up, there's plenty of wood thickness, given the excellent results with standard mouthpieces; or am I missing something?

I was a bit suprised by the non-standard diameter given that this was made for Heyworths and obviously intended for the UK market.

Paul

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