Klarinet Archive - Posting 000582.txt from 1998/02

From: garylsmith@-----.com (Gary L Smith)
Subj: Re: Acoustics of the Primitive Early Clarinets
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 09:38:05 -0500

On Sat, 14 Feb 1998 00:04:08 -0500 ROBERT HOWE <arehow@-----.net>
writes:

>On the oboe, for the same situation, the seocnd partial (c' not g'!!)
>will have 500, 750, 1000, 1250 all feeding energy into the system,
>smoothing over discrepancies (not that oboe players ever have reed
>problems..) and STABILIZING the note.
>
>THus, the second register of a clarinet IS less secure in its behavior
>than is that of an oboe (etc). And there is a logical reason why this
>is so.

Having approached saxophone as a modification of my clarinet technique, I
never looked at a saxophone beginner book until I started offering
lessons. It was somewhat of a surprise at first when I realized that a
beginner sax player starts out in the upper register rather quickly and
only gets into really low notes after the embouchure begins to be
established. Of course, this is opposite of the way clarinet is taught,
and suggests that the upper register of a saxophone is *more* stable than
the lower. Is this true of the oboe as well?