Klarinet Archive - Posting 001027.txt from 1998/11

From: Martin Pergler <pergler@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Why I can't play in tune: a clarinetist's apology
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 18:33:39 -0500

On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Tony Pay wrote:

> Martin, I think you're the man to give us an estimate of the precise
> magnitude of the effect. Sorry to have called you a physicist by the
> way -- I can't read.
[meaning change in pitch depending on whether a clarinetist has
fresh or stale air in lungs.]

Ouf. That's what always happens...you post something, and others
mistakenly assume you actually know something! I certainly can't
estimate this off the top of my head; though maybe a biophysicist of
some sort could. If noone comes out of the woodwork, I may try to
find the data next week, once libraries open after the holidays and
I get an under-rehearsed concert out of the way...it seems curious
that it could have an audible effect!

Martin

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Martin Pergler pergler@-----.edu
Grad student, Mathematics http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~pergler
Univ. of Chicago

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