Klarinet Archive - Posting 000152.txt from 1999/12

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] cylinders & cones
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:58:54 -0500

Frank P. Galiani wrote,
>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.>

I don't know about the PVC pipe instructions, but I own a different book with
instructions on making a clarinet in the home workshop:

Trevor Robinson, _The Amateur Wind Instrument Maker_, University of
Massachusetts Press, 1973.

Chapter 5 gives instructions on making a primitive clarinet. It's based on
(but not an exact replica of) the Christopher Denner type of late 17th
century clarinet with only two keys. Denner had doubled the seventh hole;
this plan also doubles the third, fourth and sixth, on the same principle as
the doubling of certain holes on recorders, so that the player doesn't have
to feel around for the correct half-hole positions necessary to play a full
chromatic scale. Some of the other changes: the mouthpiece dimensions have
been changed so that it can be used with a modern ligature and the overall
length of the clarinet is shorter than the Denner, so that if made correctly,
this instrument should play up to modern pitch. Robinson writes that "the
bore is cylindrical except for a slight constriction at the bottom..." (p.
45). He also says, "there is no reliable way of providing both b' and
b-flat' on this instrument" (p. 47). The plans include a graph-paper design
and a chart giving dimensions of holes and distance between them. The book
also includes plans for flute, fife, recorders, shawn, oboe, krumhoorns,
racketts, cornetti, trumpets and horns, all primitive. I have not yet
attempted to use any of these plans and have never seen or heard an
instrument made from them. Has anyone tried these?

Lelia
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