Klarinet Archive - Posting 000203.txt from 1997/11

From: ROBERT HOWE <arehow@-----.net>
Subj: Re: klarinet-digest V1 #381
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 20:34:57 -0500

David C. Blumberg wrote:
>
> That the material does not make a difference in the sound.

All this debate about walls and material, so many opines, so few data.
I suggest you LOOK IT UP, if you check a standard acoustics text--say,
Art Benade's Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics (Dover, NY)--you will
find that the material matters but only to a point. THe discussion is
long and technical, but the material is less important than the finish
on it.

Hence the value of a smooth, polished bore, which absorbs less energy
via friction and provides an easier blowing, more flexible instrument.

If you think about this a moment you will understand how clarinets and
oboes "play out", and why bassoons do not.

RObert Howe