Klarinet Archive - Posting 000892.txt from 2000/09

From: Jennifer Jones <JJONES@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: [kl] Correlation: Tip opening and tongue speed
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:23:51 -0400

> Dave Sandusky wrote,
> > Does playing an A = 440 Hz mean that the reed is vibrating at 440 beats
> > per second?
> > If so, then can one really tongue faster than that, so as
> > to "overtake" the reed?

> If someone *could* tongue that fast (some mutant with recombinant DNA from a
> lizard, maybe!), wouldn't it sound just the way the reed sounds now if we
> don't tongue at all? -- a continuous tone? -- because we can't *hear* sound
> as separate ta ta ta's at that speed.

Probably not because a tongue would have different ratios of overtones...
Though I do agree it would be a continuous tone. ;-)

-Jennifer Jones

Sophomore Botany major University of California, Riverside
UCR Orchestra 2nd clarinet

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