Klarinet Archive - Posting 000033.txt from 1994/05

From: James Langdell <James.Langdell@-----.COM>
Subj: One-Piece vs Two-Piece
Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 09:52:59 -0400

One thing I haven't seen mentioned is the advantage
a multi-piece clarinet body provides for tuning.

If you need to pull out the clarinet to lower the
pitch to match your friends-of-the-moment, you can
even out the pitch distortion by pulling two (or three)
joints out a little rather than one joint out a lot.
If the two largest pieces were joined, you wouldn't be
able to make such a balanced adjustment.

Do other advantages of a single-piece body outweigh
that flexibility?

--James Langdell jamesc@-----.com
Sun Microsystems Mountain View, Calif.