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Throat tones on very-very vintage Buffet

Author: Bill
Date: 2012-11-19 21:06

I have Buffet 714H (1894) back from the shop -- a wonderful restoration job done by a competent tech who really went "above and beyond" with this instrument and did as outstanding a job with it as could be done -- but am having serious intonation problems with the throat tones. Open G is so sharp it registers on my tuner as G# (a half tone above). A is bad too.

As luck would have it, I own a good selection of old mouthpieces but was wondering, more broadly, what I'd need in a mouthpiece to help with this (beyond its being "old"). With the tuning problems stated above, I am actually using a very old grenadilla Buffet barrel.

So my question is: do I need more volume in the chamber of the mpc? Less volume? Longer barrel (I hadn't actually considered this ... yet). I was using a Chadash 66 mm and tried the original barrel from a 1936 Buffet but that didn't really help at all. The clarinet, prior to work done on it, had the barrel as part of the upper joint. Because of the extensive cracks, this has to be redone and now the UJ uses a removable barrel.

Maybe it's a lost cause, but it's a nice old Buffet and I'd love to crack the code of the throat tones and be able to play it.

Thanks.

Bill Fogle
Ellsworth, Maine
(formerly Washington, DC)

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