Klarinet Archive - Posting 000306.txt from 1999/05

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Re[2]: [kl] Re: Clarinet sharpness
Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 19:54:57 -0400

At 02:26 PM 5/9/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I was using the HS* and it has a lot of resistannce when you play it. Mrs.
>Kramer gave me a different Selmer mouthpiece and I like it a lot better
because
>I no longer feel like I'm blowing my brains out trying to make a half decent
>note come out of the clarinet. The mouthpiece I am using now is a hard
rubber
>mouthpiece and is about as expensive as the HS*.
____
>Subject: Re: [kl] Re: Clarinet sharpness
>From: <klarinet@-----.org> at berlink
>Date: 5/9/99 1:19 PM
>
>I suppose your talking to me, right? I use a Selmer HS*. It has a very
tiny
>hardly noticeable chip in it but it doesn't squeak or anything because of
it.

Here are the specs on the Selmers I measured at IMS a couple of months ago:

Selmer B: .92 Tip Selmer B*: 1.05 Tip
2 6
5 11
16 20
26 32

Selmer C*: 1.12 Tip Selmer 120 C85: 1.18 Tip
6 8
10 14
20 26
32/34 37

Selmer HS** Standard: 1.19 Tip
8
12
22
38/34

The Selmer HS* was not available at the time, but it is more closed than
the HS** with a much shorter curve schedule. The baffle is very shallow,
and the tip rails tend to be quite thin.

What does this all mean? Resistance will be greater (except for the tip
rails) and the sound production will be edgier yet with plenty of projection.

______
Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director, Concert Band/Symphonic Winds/Titan Band
Advisor, Recording Studio
Illinois Wesleyan University
Office: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3411

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