Klarinet Archive - Posting 000560.txt from 1997/03

From: "Scott D. Morrow" <SDM@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Acoustic effects (was: Re: Pre-WWII Amer. Rep.)
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:44:36 -0500

>At 09:47 AM 3/13/97 -0600, Gary Young wrote:
>>I performed the Cage Sonata once on a hot summer day, and
>>found myself seated directly under a rotating ceiling fan which people
>>wouldn't let me turn off (too hot, no air conditioning). The fan imparted
>>a strange slow vibrato-like effect to the clarinet sound. (I don't
>>understand the acoustics of this.) At first I was irritated, but then I
>>realized this was the sort of thing Cage would have loved, and really got
>>into the sound.
>

Those of you who play recorder:
A really dramatic example of this can be heard by playing facing a
fan (blowing toward you). I haven't tried this on clarinet, but I suspect
it would give the same effect, especially in the altissimo.

-Scott (Boredom is the mother of invention)

Scott D. Morrow
Department of Biochemistry
School of Hygiene and Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
(410) 955-3631

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