Klarinet Archive - Posting 000751.txt from 1997/11

From: Grant Green <gdgreen@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Clarinet materials
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 15:41:11 -0500

Ed said:
>> Can someone who owns (or has access to) both a metal clarinet and a
>> plastic clarinet tell us if they sound different?
>
>I can do even better than that, as I have played on many different wooden
>clarinets, and they all sounded different. Also, I have played on many
>different plastic clarinets, and they all sounded different. I also own 2
>metal clarinets and have played on several others, and they all sound
>different.
>
>Sometimes the range of different sounds within each type is so great that
>a listener who couldn't see which type was being played couldn't tell what
>the material of the instrument was.
>
>Ed Lacy
>el2@-----.edu

This suggests to me that *if* there is some effect due to the material
used, the effect is less than the effects due to other aspects of the
design and manufacture. Perhaps we're being silly depleting the remaining
grenadilla stocks...

Grant Green

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