Klarinet Archive - Posting 000178.txt from 2000/01

From: gtg <gtgallant@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Clarinet maker
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 19:48:26 -0500

<<The nickel plating had a bit more robust sound than
the silver on every instrument I tried. The silver
had (for lack of a better term) a"smoother"sound. Both
were good and I found instruments made with both kinds
of keys that I liked, but there was quite definitely
different characters to the sound.>>

The only way to prove this would be to use the SAME
clarinet and replate its keys. Comparing two
different clarinets with different key plating has too
many variables that destroy your hypothesis. The
clarinets compared would have to be perfectly similar
-a manufacturing impossibility for clarinets - in
order to make such bold assumptions. Even so, I don't
think key plating makes any difference in sound. The
keys do not vibrate, the air column does. If you can
generate enough wind energy to vibrate the clarinet
walls and keys, you may be supernatural! :)

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