Klarinet Archive - Posting 000086.txt from 1996/01

From: Ed Pearlstein <e_p@-----.EDU>
Subj: cork pads
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 17:29:58 -0500

Bill Fogle says:

: I wonder if cork has the same effect on the speaker key---damping the
: tone too rapidly? I am thinking of having my R-13 speaker key corked and

I don't know whether the hard surface of cork pads makes a perceptible
difference, over softer pads, in the acoustics of an instrument. But I doubt
that it would be perceptible if only one of the pads were cork. And the
speaker hole is the smallest of all.
Someone might try an experiment, with holes that are normally covered by
the flesh of the fingers: stick some cork to the fingers, and see whether
that makes a perceptible difference. Maybe have a couple of "blind" judges
try to tell.