Klarinet Archive - Posting 000689.txt from 1998/10

From: "John Gates" <cadenza@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] re:what is grunting
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:06:01 -0400

Grunting only seems to happen on A Clarinet. Why?
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From: David C. Blumberg <reedman@-----.com>
Date: Thursday, October 15, 1998 7:51 AM
Subject: [kl] re:what is grunting

>Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 20:20:28 EDT
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>From: pollyg@-----. Gulakowski)
>Subject: Re: [kl] grunt- register tube
>Excuse my ignorance - what is "grunting"? I've not heard that term
>before.
>tia
>Paulette
>Live a life of EXCLAMATION not explanation!
>Old clarinetists never die, they just get reed-ic-u-lous!
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>It's a subtone, sounds like a grunt that occurs if the register tube is the
>wrong length. Nice for multiphonics, but not much else ;). Something you
>wouldn't want to occur while playing the Pines of Rome solo. Brand (first
>week or so) new Clarinets don't always do it right away, but after a few
>days, it tends to show up if it is going to do it.
>David Blumberg
>reedman@-----.com
>http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/Music/Blumberg.html
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