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Re: Clarinet in C (shortening the Barrel)

Author: Chris P
Date: 2019-02-19 18:12

With the barrel shortened to just two sockets with nothing much between them (or just taping the mouthpiece to the top tenon), you'll end up with a Bb clarinet that plays a semitone or thereabouts sharp in the throat notes and somewhere between a quarter tone and a semitone sharp lower down - therefore an instrument that's completely out of tune with itself.

If you have a guitar or a similar fretted string instrument, you can see the exact same effect if you move the bridge from its original and calculated position to much nearer to the fingerboard and then play an open string and stopping it at the 12th fret for the 8ve on that same string. The note at the 1th fret will be dreadfully sharp compared to the open string as the scale is out of whack as the frets are in a set position relative to the length of the string just as the toneholes are in set positions according to the pitch of the clarinet.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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