Um well I can`t say I know much about the company they mainly make guitars and honestly I don`t know if it intentional that the barrel tunes thr clarinet to an A, or if it is just poorly manufactured their for making it sharp.

Jen, I think someone is bluffing

Honestly I`m not I got a cheap clarinet from these people and it came with two barrels. It said in the little write up thing about it "Comes with an extra tuning barrel" so I tried it and i was playing with my band and I was confused why I sounded the way I did. So I got out my tuner and I was mega sharp. I went over to my piano and the whole clarinet was tuned to A so I took it to my band teacher and we looked at it and it tuned the entire clarinet to a) I sold the school the cheap clarinet but kept the crazy barrel. I then went and talked to some guys at our local music store about it and they gave me the name of this local guy...Jordan something...and said he sells them so I went and talked to him and he sold me a few they don`t look like the normal barrel some are fatter and skinnier...it`s weird when I play in concerts and stuff I use my concert C, Eb, or A clarinets but if it is just messing around I use the barrels on my good buffet.

-Jen

I`m nearly sure this is a physical impossibility- I don`t think it`s possible without something much more radical than what you described.

If you have contact information for Jordan or the clarinet you bought, I`d appreciate it.

Clarinet is bought from Sears, the company is NOVA. It`s a really super crappy clarinet too...

Do you have an address or phone# for this "Jordan" that has the barrels in question? What city does he live in? Does he make them, or just sell them? Who is NOVA? Are they a manufacturer for Sears? Please give any details you can. Thanks.

"Do you have an address or phone# for this "Jordan" that has the barrels in question?"
He used live in Harewood Village Ontario a small insignifigant town. I don`t know any more nor do I remember where he lives right now. It was a long time ago I got them I was around 9 or 10. Don`t have a number either next time I am at the store i`ll ask.

"Who is NOVA?"
All I know about NOVA is that they sell their products through Sears, and they are crap. They mainly make guitars.

very interesting, I would like to buy these barrels to change the keys of my Bb clarinet to C, A, Eb F too ! I`ll sell my A clarinet to subsidize my meal.

a shorter barrel wouldn`t work. b/c then all the holes would need to be in different places... right?



anyways.. even if it did exist, only a couple of notes would be right on key. i guess it could work if you use different fingerings when using the barrel though.

i think the only reason you have two barrels is so you can change them when your clarinet is playing flat/sharp w/o ruining the sound as much... i know i use a certain bocal when my bassoon is off key.

why don`t they just have a second set of renamed fingerings that clarinettists and trumpetists can remember so it can play music arranged in C. =/

Jay,

This is a different Jen than the one prior, honest. The reason they do not have an alternate fingering to change the key is because notes such as open G would still be in Bb. Also, try playing a note by having, I believe it is (I can`t check right now as I`m just having a brief study break, but I will get back to you), the fingering for low C, but leave the middle finger up. It should be the same note, only off pitch to a degree. There are other examples that I am unable to think of after going to bed at 1:30 a.m. last night.

hmm.. i was always under the impression that a C on a Bb instrument was always Bb on a C instrument... that`s for clearing that up.

so then instead of C, D, E, F, G
we`d call it Bb, C, D, Eb, F hahah... yea stupid idea.. haha i thought it`d work... it woulda been like transposing but just remembering how to play in C on a Bb insturment by remembering what the fingerings would be if yoiu played it in C hahaha...

What yousaid was correct- a Bb on a C instrument is always = to a Bb on a C instrument. Same works for other instruments. The name of the key that the instrument is in is the concert pitch that is equal to that instrument`s `C`. So, an Eb instrument`s C is equal to a piano`s Eb. etc...