Klarinet Archive - Posting 000001.txt from 2000/05

From: "Paul Miller" <Paulplaysclarinet@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bells & whistles
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 00:49:07 -0400

I think that the bell also affects the overtone series in each of your
notes... I read somewhere that the overtones on the clarinet get
progressively flatter the higher you go, and that is the reason that when
you play louder, you tend to go flat: as your total volume increases, so
does the volume of flat overtones. Apparently one of the reasons for this
is the shape of the bell. I wonder if a bell could be shaped to reduce the
flatness of the overtones without compromising the unique timbre of the
instrument. I tried to test the overtone thing without a bell, (louder
notes still went flat) but I think that that test is flawed because the
instrument isn't the length it was designed to be and was out of tune with
itself.

-- Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: William Wright <Bilwright@-----.net>
Subject: [kl] Bells & whistles

> A few days ago, someone speculated about different bell shapes.
> Just for the heck of it, I tried playing different notes with & without
> the bell on my Bb instrument. (If you can't hear any difference, the
> bell's shape doesn't make any difference.)
> I quickly discovered that -- to my beginner's ear, at least -- the
> bell affects only notes that use holes below the right hand G hole (as
> in G-below-the-staff). Thus the bell affects some clarion notes unless
> you play them with the side trill keys (example: B-on-the-staff and
> C-on-the-staff).
>
> I wonder if I would still say this if I had the super-liquid
> super-dark classical tone of someone like Stoltzman?

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