Klarinet Archive - Posting 001390.txt from 1998/10

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] re:Reed performance - altitude difference
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 20:12:52 -0500

David Blumberg said:
>What about the difference in the air density at different altitudes???
That
>would certainly affect the reed vibrating. There is quite a difference
if I am
>playing in the Teton Mountains or Philadelphia.

Doesn't affect the _reed_. It affects other physical things, and the
reed will vibrate at a different frequency. But the reed is still warm
and wet, just like it was somewhere else. It still isn't the reeds fault
that the clarinet is out of tune ... just like it isn't the _clarinet's_
fault. The clarinet didn't change dimensions, either (assuming the
temperature of where you're playing is about the same in both places).
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