Klarinet Archive - Posting 000753.txt from 1999/01

From: "Ed Maurey" <edsshop@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: Register Tube
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 20:23:30 -0500

Tom,

Thanks again for your answer on speaker tubes

It's been my observarion that clarinet manufacturers just, plain, get it
all wrong. I've come to be quite cynical about their design decisions.
I've seen enough obviously incorrect speaker tubes to doubt their
designer's basic competence. Hence, my original question.---------

Ed Maurey
> From: TOM RIDENOUR <klarinet@-----.net>
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] re: Register Tube
> Date: Saturday, January 16, 1999 1:23 AM
>
> >Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 21:17:44 -0400
> >To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> >From: "Ed Maurey" <edsshop@-----.ca>
> >Subject: Re: [kl] Buffet R-13
> >Message-ID: <19990116011310.AAA4246=bmwdotzd>
> >Tom,
> >Awhile back one of us in this group asked a very good question that was
> >never answered. The question was more or less this: Is there another
> >reason, presumably acoustical, for the register tube to extend into the
> >bore other than to keep water out?
> >Ed Maurey
>
> Ed,
> There is no reason the tube needs to be extended so far into the bore.
It
> is there now for manufacturing ease. In the past when the register tube
> was place on top of the bore just above the throat "A" key the tube did
not
> go so far, and was not so water prone as when placed on the bottom in
line
> with the thumb tube.
> I think the difference would be largely negligible on the Bb, but not on
> the Eb. If the tube could be pulled from the bore of the Eb the clarinet
> would probably play better.
> I've had limited experience with this, but my suspicion is that, while
this
> may make some difference, it is way down the list of things which can
have
> a significant affect on the playing of a clarinet.
> tom
>
>
>
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