Klarinet Archive - Posting 000083.txt from 1996/05

From: Virginia Lyons <lyonsva@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: A question about acoustics
Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 13:55:19 -0400

Just a quick little addendum...

at my very first clarinet lesson, my teacher touched on this topic
briefly. He mentioned that "closed cones" and "open cylinders" are
similar in that they overblow an octave (bassoons, oboes and saxes are
all closed cones, and flutes are open cylinders). "Open cones" and
"closed cylinders" overblow at the 12th. A clarinet is a closed
cylinder, but there is no common orchestral instrument that is an open
cone, but if there were, it too would oveblow a 12th.

Ginny Lyons