Klarinet Archive - Posting 000089.txt from 1996/05

From: Lisa Clayton <clayton@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: A question about acoustics (fwd)
Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 00:35:07 -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

Is there an uncommon instrument out there that is an open cone?

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