Klarinet Archive - Posting 000293.txt from 1996/08

From: frank brugman <fbrugman@-----.ORG>
Subj: Re: Brad Behn's comments on A clarinet
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 01:02:43 -0400

The "string" used is about the diameter of an old-fashioned woven clothes
line cord. A metal pin of length = to the tuning ring diameter is attached
to the top of the cord and suspends the cord from just below the mouthpiece.
A lead weight (as in one of those $7 swabs) is attached at the bottom of the
cord to keep it straight. The diameter of the cord is critical. The
results are not too pleasing. You can also use a hardwood dowel rod. I
tried using different diameter rods (in my EFER) and checking the pitch with
an electronic tuner. Thus I was able to determine the proper size rod. I
stuck it in the efer thrugh the bell during the finale of Mahler's "Titan"
to convert the fast runs from the key of "B" to the key of "C". I hope I do
not get expelled from the ICS for admitting this.

Frank

At 04:12 PM 8/9/96 EDT, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:
>Brad responded to the same poster to whom I directed an earlier
>response, but his remarks were very helpful. Mine merely indicated
>why the poster's proposed solution would not work.
>
>A number of players over the last year have posed that same solution
>(i.e., finding some way to hang a string or shoelace down the center
>of the instrument) but often offer a caveat. I cannot comment on
>the procedure since I never tried it, but it is certainly worth a
>try. (A practical question arises about how one does this thing
>and I suppose that one could insert the string at the barrel before
>assembly and then hold it in place by attaching the barrel, but I
>never really thought about how to do this thing.)
>
>My gut feel is that this solution is not a long term affair but I
>have no evidence to support or to contradict that assertion.
>
>
>====================================
>Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
>(leeson@-----.edu)
>====================================
>
>
Frank Brugman

   
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