Klarinet Archive - Posting 000223.txt from 1997/11

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: klarinet-digest V1 #381
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 10:15:56 -0500

This is what I would have said previously, if I had had more time and been
less impatient.
Yours emptily,
Roger Shilcock
P.S> Who is this Dreispul person??

On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, ROBERT HOWE wrote:

> Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 20:34:57 -0500
> From: ROBERT HOWE <arehow@-----.net>
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> 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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