Klarinet Archive - Posting 000096.txt from 1996/05

From: Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: A question about acoustics (fwd)
Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 03:53:24 -0400

At 9:35 PM 5/5/96, Lisa Clayton wrote:
>> 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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The early music folk probably know better, but I believe there were old
conical flutes. Those would have been open cones.

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Jonathan Cohler
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