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HP b flat clarinet

Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2018-09-08 19:41

I'm planning to go and try out with a very beginner level orchestra next week, really as a helper for my son who is also trying out on French horn (aged 8).

A man in our woodwind shop told me that my clarinet is not in tune and cannot be tuned so I will not be able to play in an orchestra with it and I just wondered if I might ask about that?

I've just been reading up about clarinet lengths and I think that mine might be an HP B flat clarinet. It is 22.5 inches in length not including the mouthpiece and I read about it here.

http://www.gtc-music1.com/forum/index.php?topic=5197.0

I just wondered if you know whether that is right? I don't want to show up to an orchestra and play wildly out of tune, but I also don't really want to change my clarinet as it is a family heirloom having been bought my grandmother for my Mum in the 1950s. When I play C on the clarinet it comes out half a semi-tone above B flat. If I pull the barrel out to tune it, the barrel fall off, just before the instrument plays an actual B flat.

The clarinet is labelled E. J. Albert, Bruxelles and it looks like this:
http://theitinerantbotanist.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-rebuilt-clarinet.html

I would guess it is related to these:
http://www.clarinetsdirect.biz/EJAlberts-Fletcher.html
But it doesn't have silver keywork.

I wondered if anybody might know what the right thing is to do? Do you think I need a different instrument or a longer barrel maybe?

Thanks!

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