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How do you try barrels?

Author: Musikat
Date: 2017-05-25 04:59

I don't mean play testing them for various characteristics, but how to you get them to try? From researching on this board it seems like the best thing to do is to try several at once, but there are no music stores that I can find near me that have what I want to try (Moennig and Chadash), so do I order them from Amazon or a music store, paying for all of them, then send back what I don't want? That is a lot of money up front and what if something happens to them? Unlikely I know, but still.... I was lucky with the mouthpiece process in that Gregory Smith just sent them to me and I only had to pay shipping to and from. I went to Walter Grabner's house and was able to play test several to select the one to pay for and take for the trial period. But the barrel was a spur of the moment purchase and I took the one he handed me with the idea that it was optimized to work well with his mouthpiece.

I have decided to definitely keep the Gregory Smith 1+, though, and although I like what the Grabner barrel does for it much more than my old barrel (which was the wrong size for this mouthpiece at 67 mm when it plays low already),
I have never tried either of these other barrels. Gregory Smith recommends the Chadash with his mouthpiece, and I understand both this and Moennig are designed to improve R13's specifically. Unfortunately he is out of stock on barrels right now so can't send me any to try before my trial is up on the Grabner.

So how do you try barrels, typically, and how many of each type would be a good number? Can I get just one of each? Two?

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