Klarinet Archive - Posting 000583.txt from 1997/11

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: Playdough and the clarinet's materials
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 04:16:05 -0500

BUT - all it would show is the material might *affect* the sound - it
wouldn't show that vibrations within the material contribute to the
perceived sound, which is what Tom Ridenour seemed to trying to imply
without any supporting evidence.
Roger Shilcock

On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Roger Garrett wrote:

> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:46:22 -0600 (CST)
> From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: leeson@-----.us
> Subject: Re: Playdough and the clarinet's materials
>
>
>
> On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if you had 5 clarinets, one wood, one bamboo, one
> > glass, one plastic, and one metal. And you did this experiment
> > on all 5 and you then heard differences of a similar nature
> > no matter which clarinet was playdoughed.
> > It seems to me that it would establish exactly the opposite of
> > what you have said, namely that no matter what the medium of
> > the instrument, putting playdough on the bell affects all the
> > instruments in the same way. Therefore, the medium can have
> > no influence on the sound.
>
> Or, if the difference is similar on each instrument, that is, the sound
> changes by the same ratio, then there is a difference. By saying that the
> difference is the same, are you saying the same as the wood clarinet or
> the same changes with varying degrees of change? I am not trying to be
> difficult, I am just trying to understand exactly what you meant. It
> would seem more correct that, if the changes happened to each instrument
> on the bell but not on the body of the instrument, that it does in fact
> prove that vibrations are occurring with the bell and that, by altering
> the material (adding playdough alters the material as well as the
> thickness, density...), the sound changes.
>
> Um.....is that correctly stated? Others?
>
> RG
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