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Re: Buffet vs. Moennig Barrels

Author: John Peacock
Date: 2017-03-10 18:16

In considering the effect of various bore tapers, it should be remembered that all barrels are individuals. On various occasions, I've sat down with a bunch of Buffet barrels, all allegedly the same model, and been astonished at how different they felt and sounded. This is also true with other quality manufacturers. I'm still at a loss to understand how this can be, given modern manufacturing methods. One hypothesis is that maybe the wood changes a little in shape after being bored; the other is that different pieces of wood have a different resonance via their internal grain structure (Peter Eaton told me he believes in the second hypothesis).

But in any case, this means it's not so easy to take one Buffet standard barrel and one Moennig model and say much that is useful about the effect of the taper. You might well like the Moennig one better, but this could be for reasons that are not due to the design philosophy. Maybe if you had 5 of each some pattern might emerge.

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