Klarinet Archive - Posting 001093.txt from 1998/11

From: "Ed Maurey" <edsshop@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Why I can't play in tune: a clarinetist's apology
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 08:15:13 -0500

Youse Scientific Types shure knows your stuff!

I always keep a supply of several hundred pounds of carbon dioxide on hand
for welding and beer making. So I filled up my diaphragm with this deadly
green house gas and checked out its flattening qualities. Sure enough, it
dropped the pitch by about 8 cents.. Now if we can figure out how to keep
it from leaking out of the F holes of violins!!!

Ed Maurey

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Why I can't play in tune: a clarinetist's apology
> Date: Friday, November 27, 1998 10:41 PM
>
> At 10:52 AM 11/26/98 -0600, Martin Pergler wrote:
> >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!
> >
> Have you ever burped while playing? Instant, but momentary, severe
flatness!
>
>
>
>

> Bill Hausmann
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> If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.
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