The Clarinet BBoard

The Clarinet BBoard The C4 standard

New Topic | Go to Top | Go to Topic | Search | Help/Rules | Smileys/Notes | Log In

Previous Message | Next Message

Re: Match Pitch Barrels??

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2020-01-26 15:33

What are the bore measurements? Meaning, is the bore straight, tapered?

I have been messing around with materials for 3 or 4 years now trying to design something a bit different and the bore is critical and it should be based on the bore of your mouthpiece. This avoids dead notes and pitch issues. At for the material used, sure your sound will change a bit. To a certain degree I prefer harder materials, but definitely not as hard as metal and maybe not as hard as rod robber. But rod rubber comes in at many hardness levels and I just haven't figured it out yet. At the same time I don't like soft wood because the bore changes more and your pitch will need constant adjustments and from experience when performing as halls warm up inside when people fill their seats the hall temperature goes up just a few degrees your pitch changes. The bore expands and then becomes smaller with water and the heat of the water and swelling will happen. I think the future is synthetic materials.

I do like Guy Chadash barrels. Some are all wood, some rubber, some part rubber and wood. Added his barrels have regular tapers and reverse tapers.

Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces

Yamaha Artist 2015

Reply To Message | Avail. Forums | Flat View

Newer Topic | Older Topic

Topics