Klarinet Archive - Posting 000568.txt from 2000/11

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Fantastique or catastrophe?
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 06:25:38 -0500

At 10:26 PM 11/15/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>What would happen if the string contained knots (to increase diameter) at
>selected locations along its length? Would it assist or be counter
>productive to the intended goal, or would it have more/less effect in
>specific locations only?
>
> > <><> Tony Pay wrote:
> > Do you have clarinets? Do you have string? Different sorts of string?
> > What more need I say?

When I was a first year clarinet student back in the 7th grade, I remember
learning to play the Mozart Concerto 2nd movement. My dad had a scratchy
old album of an unknown clarinetist with an even more unknown orchestra
playing the Concerto. It wasn't even a vinyl disc - it was the next level
after shellac! Anyway, I tried to play along one day and just couldn't get
in tune! When my dad came home from work, he thought it very funny that I
was trying to match a Bb to an A clarinet recording. Then he told me about
dropping the string down the clarinet - and we experimented with several
different strings. I was amazed! It worked. I didn't like the way the
instrument felt when the string was inside, but it really did drop the pitch!

I never tried it with knots though - that is an interesting twist.........

Sincerely,
Roger Garrett

Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director, Symphonic Winds
Advisor, IWU Recording Services
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
Phone: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3121

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