Klarinet Archive - Posting 001399.txt from 1998/10

From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] re:Altitude pt 2
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 10:05:16 -0500

Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 20:11:25 -0500
From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subject: Re: [kl] re:Reed performance - altitude difference
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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I must have not caught the first thread. I would not expect the altitude to
have an effect on intonation, but would expect the reed to feel harder at
higher altitudes. The air column in the Clarinet is a different density at
different altitudes. If the reed vibrates at a different frequency, then what
is the effect of that different frequency?
David Blumberg
reedman@-----.com
http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/Music/Blumberg.html
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