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Re: Playing Massively Flat

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-02-26 01:40

RKing wrote:

> I think there is more to it than barrel length, but don't know
> what it is.
>

It's the volume of the air column. Given the same bore dimensions, a longer barrel has a larger internal volume than a shorter one and produces a lower pitch. But given two barrels of the same length but different bores, the one with more internal volume will play lower.

I don't know how the bore volumes compare between standard Buffet barrels, Moennig-Buffet barrels and Chadash-Buffet barrels, but the internal tapers are not, AFAIK, the same, so it's very possible the overall internal volume of each is different and, hence, the pitch of each may be different with the same 66mm length.

Karl

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