Klarinet Archive - Posting 000215.txt from 1997/11

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: re:from material to blow out
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 23:14:39 -0500

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.46
> Subj: re:from material to blow out

> I didnt' write that the materials don't make a difference. In fact I do believe
> that they do. As to blow out- thats another mythical subject that us Clarinet
> players burn the midnight oil discussing. I again believe that clarinets DO blow
> out, but there are others that do not.

OK. I'll bite. What causes you to believe what you believe?

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> Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 20:34:57 -0500
> From: ROBERT HOWE <arehow@-----.net>
> Subject: Re: klarinet-digest V1 #381
> 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
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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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