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Re: Is Backun’s fatboy barrel good?

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2022-03-30 09:04

Barrels can be very complicated. I've been working on a new barrel for 3 years and they have a micro thin hard rubber insert. This thin rubber insert helps keep your horn playing in tune, because wood swells surely effecting intonation. These are ready for the market, but I'm not sure if I want to market these. It's a lot of hard work. These barrels are also tapered and reverse tapered; this helps fit most styles of clarinets, from Buffet to Yamaha and even some Selmer horns. Next are the mouthpieces. Most of them are simply made wrong. A lot of mouthpiece bores are made too small, tuning issues as well as sound qualities are hard to fix. So changing barrels most likely won't help you become a better player, in fact hinder your playing achievements.

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

Yamaha Artist 2015

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