Klarinet Archive - Posting 000136.txt from 2000/05

From: Topper <leo_g@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Bells & Whistles
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 18:03:05 -0400

At 11:11 AM -0700 5/2/00, Kevin Fay (LCA) wrote:
>Topper writes:
>
><<<I am also sure that the the bottom bell ring does more than keep the wood
>from splitting.>>>
>
>Aside from Don Longacre's rehearsal antics, there apparently is an
>acoustical difference in the bell ring. Rosario Mazzeo and his posse of
>students regularly lopped the bell rings off their horns to get a different,
>presumably "better" sounding B natural. Selmer even sold Mazzeo models with
>these truncated bells.
>
>Now . . I have no idea if it's the metal ring, or just the shortening of the
>bell you get when chopping it off that made the difference, but I have tried
>Mazzeo-lopped bells and they do indeed sound as bit different. Not enough
>for me to take a saw to my own clarinets, mind you. They were the gadget du
>jour at one time, however.
>
>kjf

Kevin,

If all is well this cc reply will reach you.
The ring acts as a damper as well as a stablizer for certain frequencies.
I have sent now three replies to the list and wonder if the maintenance has
not resumed???

Cheers, Leo

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you:-) Leo

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