The best clarinet barrel there is? The Brad Behn clarinet barrel - is it right for you?
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Clarinet Barrels can be the difference between getting exactly the response and tone from your clarinet that you want - and missing it by "this much". What does a clarinet barrel do and why would you want a different one? Learn all about that and the beauty of the Brad Behn clarinet barrel here.
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Wow. I am now looking at my box full of barrels and feeling the need to try more. 🤣 This must have been an insane amount of work to put together- thanks for sharing!!!
Thanks John. Putting videos together takes some organization. Let me know when you want to go try the barrels in Ireland - I will come hang out. Brad's table is my favorite place to linger around :)
Moenig was a revered repairman in the Philadelphia area. My R-13 A clarinet has a Moenig vent tube.
Big fan of these, and I definitely think they're the best adjustable barrels on the market. The Zoom and Royal Global ones are also quite good, but they have their own issues that I think Brad's stuff doesn't seem to compromise as much. I personally play on one that's hard rubber with a solid brass ring (I have an older model so I don't have the extra O rings that prevent from over-tightening that he added in the current generation of these). One small correction: there is still a gap in the barrel, but the gap is much smaller than you'd get with pulling a traditional barrel in and out. You can see it if you open up the barrel closer to the mouthpiece end. If you ever take one of these apart for maintenance, the mechanism is actually quite clever, especially how he got the haptic feedback in there.
I would fear never being able to put it back together if I were to take it apart. I was blown away by how great they are.
@@clarinetninja Brad has a very easy to follow video on it on his website. It's part of the maintenance for the barrel, it's not as hard as you'd think!
I second what Lucas said, watch the video on how to take it apart and put it back together, as Brad does recommend taking it apart to clean it on occasion.
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I love you mate, so honnist, really appreciate you good sir.
Been using Brad's adjustable barrels dor several years. I have 2 regular hard rubber with steel ring and recently purchased a mopani with brass ring which I am loving. The wood definitely adds some nice warmth and complexity compared to the standard hard rubber barrels. Still will be using both models depending on a lot of things such as style of music, what space I'll be playing in etc.
I love the mopane sound~ a hint of sweetness and covered ~
I use a Backun Fatboy 64 in some of my clarinet videos. Thanks for your review.
Delrin is a type of plastic. Very durable. I know it’s used in many pocket knife handles. I swapped out my B12 stock barrel for a R13 barrel. Made a big difference. I haven’t tried these but I like the idea of an adjustable barrel. I especially like they can be adjusted in half millimeter increments.
Thanks for the info....I still never got around to googling it :)
How about a metal barrel? Alto and bass clarinets use metal tubes to connect the mouthpiece to the upper joint and that seems to work just fine.
In both of the instances you mention, there are curves involved. I am only guessing, but it would be complicated and expensive to fashion a piece of wood into that shape - much less do it consistently. There is no reason a barrel couldn't be made out of metal. There are entire clarinets made out of metal. I think all of those are from a long time ago, and I rarely see one in the wild and have never seen one in a professional situation or semi professional situation.
All that said, there is no real reason why it would be a usable barrel
All the tones with the rubber model were muted, Thank you👍
I liked the delrin blue ring (moenig) best but both the grenadillas were a close second. I hope you’ll let us know which one you decide on!
Very interesting ; where did you get all these different versions that are not available on the Brad Behn website?
I asked Brad to send me a sampling of his barrels to check out. I chose two to use. I am unaware of what’s on his site. I think he does so much updating of the materials that it’s hard to keep the site as current as it could be. As someone who has an active website it can be difficult to stay organized with.
I think all of what’s in the video can be purchased by anybody. If it’s not up on the site I would email him through the site and tell him you what you want.
Dunno, they all sound good from here and very similar. How did they feel to play? Did the Moennig-style bore feel appreciably different? Also, what are you calling a stock Buffet barrel? The barrel that has always come with R-13s has been a cylindrical barrel. The Moennig barrel is a reverse-taper bore. My favorite Buffet barrel is a Chadash, which is maybe very slightly more focussed and slightly brighter than the Moennig.
Yeah. I botched that distinction. The stock barrel is the rc prestige barrel that came with my instrument
They all felt pretty similar but there was a free blowing feeling with the rubber ring that was slightly different and a little more “hold” feeling with the overlays and brass rings. But if I were blindfolded I may not be able to tell lol
Interesting! I use a Moennig barrel currently, super curious to know how similar the Moennig version of this Behn barrel is to the original Moennig.
I don’t have a moennig to compare. I wish I had insight into that
Hearing about rubber materials makes me think of the tarnishing my BD4 made on my RC Prestige. Will these have the same effect? Some of them better or worse I guess =)
I think its the sulfer in the rubber that causes that issue. I don't think you mean to blame your BD4 specifically (any rubber mouthpiece would have done the same thing). So yes, the rubber barrels would increase the rate by which your keys will tarnish. At the same time, a little extra effort would prevent the tarnish from happening. Also consider the Delrin version if that is an issue you prefer not to deal with.
Hi ther,
What's the price of the b flat barrel 64mm?
And how i can get one.
Thanks
I leave the details to Brad! All of these details are here www.clarinetmouthpiece.com/product-page/evo-clarinet-adjustable-barrel
If you have any questions - I am confident Brad knows the answer better than me and would be happy to answer it through his website.
I want you to know that I made a mistake in the video - the barrel you are thinking of goes from 63-68. I understood it wrong when I made the video. It has even more range than I said!
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What do you mean when a "clarinet is blown out?"
that is a term (it's not what it sounds like) for a clarinet that has been played a lot. It's a bit of a hot topic as to what it means and how to tell. I brought my friend Melianie Wong in to talk about it in a video. Check it out - she is a genius and delightful in every way th-cam.com/video/IkOBSGZK3iw/w-d-xo.html
I think blowing single note is maybe not the best way check barrels.... Resistance is a big part... Resistance playing musical frases ect....
Agreed. That’s why I played the Copland
@@clarinetninjaexcuse me.... I didn't get to there... Sorry...
The best barrel in my experience is the stock barrel. Other barrels change the clarinet's resistant and homogeneity of the sound. That's my subjective opinion.
I think I also prefer the sound of the stock barrel very slightly, with maybe the delrin barrels coming next, but the differences are very slight.
Well, your experience may have been coincidental, but in fact, a "stock" barrel does not actually mean that it has been selected specifically for a certain clarinet, and on the other hand, the best barrel depends on the mouthpiece used. With the Vandoren M series, for example, it is known without hesitation that the Moenning or Chaddash type barrels are better than the stock ones...
Me still being the thing that needs change 😂
Me too!
Would be better if I get a shoutout😊
I give you a shoutout nearly every day at school :)