Klarinet Archive - Posting 000276.txt from 2000/12

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Noodlng about buzz
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 18:08:47 -0500

At 09:11 AM 12/5/2000 -0800, William Wright wrote:
> Anyway, the three mechanical explanations that have occurred to me
>are: (1) bad buzz is chaotic vibration, (2) good buzz is when there are
>plenty of higher partials that fill the 'empty moments' of the
>fundamental tone, and (3) bad buzz is a vibration that approaches a
>square wave shape wherein the reed stays fully closed for too much of
>each cycle and then pops up too rapidly for a moment and then closes
>again for too much of the note's cycle.
>
I know we've discussed this business of whether the reed fully closes
before, but I think you have a new wrinkle here. Your description
(speculation?) of how the reed closing for TOO LONG a time might cause the
tone to approach a square wave is most interesting. It would explain the
buzzy, flabby tone produced by too soft a reed, without negating the theory
that the reed does indeed close completely.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
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