Klarinet Archive - Posting 000781.txt from 1998/12

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gas flow rate in clarinet
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 12:21:23 -0500

> 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!

The clarinet is a cylinder, a sax is a cone. They end up being both
physically and acoustically different.

Cheers,
Mark Charette@-----.org

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