Klarinet Archive - Posting 000344.txt from 1997/09

From: Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.net>
Subj: Re: ending the GreenLine plastic/composite thread
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 14:00:03 -0400

Roger Garrett wrote:

>No argument with the quality of sound.....I should have said the feeling
>when one blows through it. I am certain you are not playing on a plastic
>Yamaha, Bundy or Vito are you Jonathan?

Nope, definitely not. But that's because of how those instruments are
made, not because of the material.

> Would you agree that they feel
>remarkably different from a Noblet...which has the same basic undercutting
>as its plastic counterparts?

The Noblet is a totally different design, is it not?

The material out of which a clarinet is made will not change how the
instruments sounds or feels (in terms of blowing) to a player or listener.
It may feel different to the hands, because the material is different.

What makes instruments sound and feel different (in terms of blowing) is
bore shape, tone hole placement and shape, and other perturbations of the
air column shape (such as roughness of the material, or nooks and crannies
caused at joints etc.).

>
>By the way....I enjoy your recordings.....have many of them and are highly
>recommended to my students. Glad to have you recording!

Thanks! Much appreciated!

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Jonathan Cohler
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