Klarinet Archive - Posting 000142.txt from 1999/12

From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] cylinders & cones
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 04:21:33 -0500

Yes indeed, Chapter Ten of Dr Bonade's book
"Horns, Strings and Harmony": Anchor Books,
Doubleday and Co. N.Y. (1960)
is entitled "Homemade Wind Instruments"
After the trumpet, he discusses simpified woodwind,
basic metal keywork which he calls machinery,
the cutting of countersunk pad holes,
the positions and sizes of holes and
the Boehm flute and clarinet.

Plate VIII, opposite page 201, shows such a clarinet
made by Gregory Levin and exhibited and demonstrated
at the Northeastern Ohio Science Fair in 1959
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James L Cook wrote 05 December 1999 08:22
Subject: Re: [kl] cylinders & cones

>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."

Dee D. Hays wrote 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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