Klarinet Archive - Posting 000779.txt from 1998/12

From: SDSCHWAEG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Gas flow rate in clarinet
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 08:46:39 -0500

In a message dated 12/21/98 7:36:56 AM Central Standard Time,
roger.shilcock@-----.uk writes:

<< for one thing, an
open-ended version of the clarinet would overblow the octave. >>

I had just enough high school physics to understand the difference between an
open and a closed pipe - looks like you're saying that an open-ended clarinet
would behave like an open pipe instead of a closed one. Okay, but what I want
to know is why a clarinet behaves like a closed pipe when a soprano saxophone
doesn't? I mean, they look kind of the same, so why shouldn't they be similar
acoustically? Obviously, I'm not much of a scientist - try to explain in not-
too-technical terms, please!

Susan

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