Klarinet Archive - Posting 000007.txt from 2000/05

From: Topper <leo_g@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bells & whistles
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 07:38:18 -0400

I would geuss that the length and flare of the bell is a calculated volume.
I suppose that the length and or shape san be changed from a continum of
the bore's diameter into a reverse cone; a paralelle extension; any size
and shape as well as a compund flare-even to match a compound bore.

Leo

At 09:49 PM -0700 4/30/00, Paul Miller wrote:
>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>
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 12:01 AM
>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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Cheers, Leo

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