Klarinet Archive - Posting 000055.txt from 1997/03

From: Douglas Sears <dsears@-----.ORG>
Subj: Re: barrels
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 19:05:06 -0500

On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Edwin V. Lacy wrote:

...
> In every other case I know of, increasing the bore size
> _lowers_ the pitch, and vice-versa.

Here's an easy experiment: try putting a rod (the size of a
drum stick, say) up your clarinet from the bottom, and see
what happens to the pitch. This will effectively decrease
the bore size in the part of the bore where the rod is.

--Doug

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Doug Sears dsears@-----.org/~dsears