Klarinet Archive - Posting 000769.txt from 1998/12

From: Note Staff Unlimited <notestaff@-----.ch>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gas flow rate in clarinet
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 02:03:07 -0500

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> > Tony Pay wrote:
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> So *any* method of getting the clarinet-aircolumn to vibrate generates a
> sound. The same is true of brass instruments, where it's the vibration
> not of a reed, but of the player's lips, that sets the
> brass-instrument-aircolumn vibrating. And in this case, a motivated
> and persistent horn player can, by dint of practice, set his/her lips
> vibrating by actually *sucking*, have this vibration transmitted to the
> horn-aircolumn, and thus still produce a recognisable horn sound. It
> can be quite loud, too!
>
> Now, this is a slightly disreputable example, and anyway, we can't do
> it on a clarinet..
>

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Try taking the mouthpiece alone with reed on it. Suck on the tenon-end and
you will hear a tone (squeak)

David

David Glenn

notestaff@-----.ch

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