Klarinet Archive - Posting 000091.txt from 1999/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] sax trouble
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:22:40 -0400

At 11:17 PM 7/3/1999 -0500, Dee Hays wrote:
>The flute functions acoustically as a cylindrical pipe open at both ends.
>The sax functions as a conical pipe driven by a single beating reed.
>The oboe functions as a conical pipe driven by a double beating reed.
>
>The characteristic clarinet sound derives from its acting acoustically as a
>cylindrical pipe closed at one end driven by a single beating reed. This is
>why plastic, wood, and metal clarinets all sound like clarinets rather than
>any other instrument.
>
Of course, plastic oboes also sound like oboes, and wood flutes like
flutes. I don't believe I have ever actually heard a Grafton plastic
saxophone, but I suspect it sounds pretty much like a sax. Your point, of
course, is valid: it is the design, not the material, that determines the
sound.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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