Klarinet Archive - Posting 000647.txt from 2000/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] G hole update
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:59:05 -0400

At 09:25 AM 8/22/2000 -0700, William Wright wrote:
> ...and while I'm correcting myself.... I carried out my threat and
>looked closely at the G hole on new wood pro clarinets. The local store
>only had only two different brands in stock (three instruments all
>together), but two of them were Yamaha's and they had the same feature
>that my instructor's pro wood Howarth has (and my plastic Yamaha doesn't
>have): the chimney wall on the G hole is noticeably thinner than on all
>the other ringed holes.
> It seems unlikely (IMO) that this is accidental. There must be an
>acoustical reason for it. A thinner wall is more prone to breakage, and
>therefore manufacturers wouldn't do it without cause.
>
This is PURE speculation, mind you, but it could be one or more of or a
combination of such factors as:

1.) The plastic, not being as sturdy as the wood, or for other reasons
concerning the molding of plastic, must be designed thicker to be of equal
strength.
2.) They figure that professional instruments will not be subjected to the
abuse student horns get, and thus they can move the compromise toward a
thinner and more fragile arrangement in order to improve, tone, tuning,
responsiveness, etc.
3.) Student instruments may use designs that include the concept of
smaller tone holes for easier coverage by little fingers, but rather than
make the rings smaller to suit, they leave them the same size for
interchangeability and thicken the chimney walls to fill the rings.

Bill Hausmann NEW ADDRESS: bhausmann1@-----.com
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