Klarinet Archive - Posting 000228.txt from 1996/08

From: Ian Dilley <imd@-----.UK>
Subj: Re: instrument weight
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 06:15:33 -0400

A heavier instrument presumably means the walls of the instrument are
thicker. Thicker walls will influence tone hole placement and size. A
deeper hole would need to be made bigger or moved upwards to produce the
same note. Also the extra depth of the closed holes will cause the
instrument behave as if the bore is wider in the vicinity of the hole. I
think these effects will be responsible for the difference in tone rather
than the extra weight.

>The grenadilla guru William Stubbins in "The Art of
>Clarinetistry" wrote the most-often quoted paragraph about
>how players are fooling themselves that weight makes the tone darker.