Klarinet Archive - Posting 000793.txt from 1999/11

From: Cornflower <hoover_3@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Cork pads (was Re: [kl] Playing on trees?)
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 01:25:45 -0500

Thanks, I was planning on getting the cork pads for
the one trill key on the right, and the G#, I'm not
quite sure of the A yet...
That would be okay, right?

Actually, I'm looking into a new clarinet. I was told
to go get a Buffet. I'll be playing in Ireland soon,
and I was thinking that it might be cheaper over
there? Probably not.

Thanks,
Colleen O'Leary, NH

> >It's a couple of the trill
> >pads in the top joint like you guys brought up.
> I'm
> >going to get cork pads put in.
>
> I'm glad you found the source of the problem. I'd
> advise caution if you were
> thinking of putting all cork pads in the whole upper
> joint, rather than just
> replacing the offending trill key pads. Somewhere
> in Arthur Benade's archive
>
http://cm.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Collections/MARL/Benade/
> there's a mention of cork pads. He says that if the
> first two resonance peaks
> aren't perfectly aligned (which is always the case),
> soft fuzzy pads can have a
> beneficial effect, widening the peaks so that they
> overlap more (damping reduces
> the Q) and you get a better tone because of more
> cooperation between the two
> peaks. Conversely, changing to cork pads with less
> damping can ruin a clarinet's
> sound if the resonances aren't pretty well aligned.
>
> --Doug
> ---------------------------
> Doug Sears dsears@-----.org
> http://www.efn.org/~dsears

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