Klarinet Archive - Posting 000140.txt from 1999/12

From: "James L Cook" <JamesLCook@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] cylinders & cones
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 23:51:46 -0500

The book that Dee remembers is Horns, Strings and Harmony by Arthur H.
Benade published by Dover, ISBN 0-486-27331. The book also includes
instructions for constructing "a sort of trumpet."
-----Original Message-----
From: Dee D. Hays <deehays@-----.com>
Date: Saturday, December 04, 1999 17:55
Subject: Re: [kl] cylinders & cones

>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Frank Galiani <fgaliani@-----.net>
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 3:55 PM
>Subject: Re: [kl] cylinders & cones
>
>
>> Dee, You said, "I even saw an exercise in a book that shows you how to
>take a
>> piece of PVC plumbing pipe (and this has a constant diameter) and make a
>> primitive clarinet."
>> I'd love to see a copy of that or get a reference to the book if at
>all
>> possible. Thanks, Frank P. Galiani
>>
>
>
>Unfortunately it was a book that I had borrowed from the Decatur, IL public
>library many years ago and I can't remember the title or author. I moved
to
>South Dakota over three years ago and so no longer have access to that
>library to go check the title.
>
>You could try just experimenting around though. Take an inexpensive
>mouthpiece and tape it to the piece of piping so it won't come out. You
>would probably want to use 1/2" pipe. Then just experiment with drilling
>holes and see what pitches you get.
>
>Dee Hays
>Canton, SD
>
>
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