Klarinet Archive - Posting 000444.txt from 1999/04

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Organ Pipes; was, Materials when decoupled from
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 21:02:09 -0400

At 04:45 PM 4/7/99 -0500, Ed Lacy wrote:
>I took another look at the organ in our church, an E. F. Walcker, built in
>Germany in 1989. Also, I checked with our professor of organ, who has
>probably investigated the inner workings of more instruments than just
>about anyone. I'm now prepared to say that it is extremely rare that a
>rank of pipes which is primarily of wood would include some metal pipes
>for the highest pitches. One exception is in one of the organs on our
>campus, a Holtcamp built in 1965. There is one wooden rank, a 16' rank
>which has a few metal pipes for its highest 5 or 6 notes.
>
>Wooden pipes can be very small indeed. In a portative organ which we
>have, some wooden pipes have a speaking length of less than one inch, and
>a total length of about 3.5 to 4 inches.
>
>The problem is in part related to a similar situation which exists for the
>clarinet. During changes of temperature, the rate of change of pitch of
>wooden and metal pipes varies considerably. This is one of the reasons
>why saxophonists who double on clarinet sometimes have a problem when
>playing in cold orchestra pits.
>
I am sure I have seen flute stops that started as square wood pipes move
into round metal ones as they got down (up?) to the smallest ones, but I am
willing to concede that these were not the finest-quality instuments.
Keeping all the pipes of similar construction has obvious advantages.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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