Klarinet Archive - Posting 000122.txt from 2000/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Metal clarinets
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 17:25:22 -0400

At 05:17 PM 5/2/2000 -0000, Mark Charette wrote:
>Lars,
>Art Benade speculated (an educated speculation) that one reason most metal
clarinets did not sound the same as wooden was the effect of turbulence
around the tonehole; very few metal clarinets had any chamfering
(undercutting) where the tonehole met the bore.
>
>The reference is buried somewhere in the Benade Archives; I may have a
copy of the notes he took on the subject at home. I'll look this evening.
>
But large-bore clarinets, as were the style then, typically do not have
undercutting. The difference in the sharpness of the tonehole edges should
not have been all THAT great.

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