Klarinet Archive - Posting 000240.txt from 1993/11

From: Saul Smaizys <saxtherapy@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: the excitor
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 11:36:24 -0500

from an earlier post:
<<<<Seen in physical terms a clarinet, just like any other brass or
woodwind instrument, has two main components: an excitor and a
resonator. The excitor, or reed, admits air into the interior of the
instrument as periodic abrupt changes of air pressure. >>>>
I would think that the breath of the player is the real excitor. The one that
is acting upon the reed, the excited which through its vibration causes the
sound to be heard which is then controlled by the lips and the mechanisms on
the body of the instrument.
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