Klarinet Archive - Posting 000039.txt from 1969/12

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Blown out Clarinets
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500

Wayne, a half thousandth change in certain places in the bore can change most winds-oboe, trumpet, sax, clarinet etc.

Kurt

-----Original Message-----
>From: Wayne Thompson <wthompson222@-----.net>
>Sent: Sep 23, 2007 4:43 PM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: [kl] Blown out Clarinets
>
>So much of this discussion is semantics. What is
>"blown out"? It is a vague expression, and as a vague
>expression it doesn't provide any information to most
>of us. I think there's complete agreement here that
>Fred's clarinet is not well described as 'blown out'.
>Something is wrong with it and a good technician could
>tell us specifically what that is.
>
>Robert, thanks for the interesting ideas about the
>conical bore of an oboe crossing the grain instead of
>being parallel. Would not another factor affecting
>oboes be the small dimensions of the upper joint? A
>two thousanth of an inch swelling is relatively much
>larger with respect to the 3/16 inch (~.180") small
>end of an oboe bore than to a 1/2 inch
>(~.570")clarinet bore.
>
>Wayne Thompson
>
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