Klarinet Archive - Posting 000734.txt from 1997/11

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: Clarinet material
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:42:25 -0500

NO - the sound is influenced by the TUBE - you haven't shown it's the
*material* which is important.
Roger Shilcock

On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Jerry Korten wrote:

> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 08:12:20 -0800
> From: Jerry Korten <jerryk@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: Re: Clarinet material
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> >Bill E. Writes -
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> >At the risk of making poor Jerry Korten feel as if he's being dumped on,
> >I would like to point out (regarding the "clarinet material makes a
> >difference" thread) a critical, determinative, and OBVIOUS point: by
> >simply adding Play-Doh to the outside of the bell, the material of the
> >clarinet was not changed at all. The vibrations were simply dampened by
> >an added weight. If you had put a lead "doughnut" around the bell of
> >the same weight as the play-doh, would you have said the material the
> >clarinet was made of was now different? How about if someone wrapped
> >their hands around it while it was played? I haven't done any empirical
> >testing along these lines, buy my conjecture is that the effect would be
> >very similar to that of the Play-Doh. However, it is a FACT that the
> >material the clarinet was made of WAS NOT ANY DIFFERENT THAN WITHOUT THE
> >ADDED WEIGHT ON THE BELL. If you're going to make a claim about
> >construction materials being different, then by golly use different
> >materials, don't hang ornaments on them and say they're of a different
> >composition.
> >Bill E.
> You're absolutely right, the material did not change. But the way the
> material could behave was changed. If the way the material behaves changes
> the sound, then the sound is influenced by the material.
>
> The next step would be to construct bells of exactly identical dimensions
> but of different materials and study the effect on sound of these
> materials.
>
> Jerry Korten
> NYC
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