Klarinet Archive - Posting 000580.txt from 2002/04

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Prestige RC vs. Prestige R13
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 16:03:39 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glen Shannon [mailto:gshannon@-----.com]
>
> How does one clarinet have more overtones than another? Through
> minute changes in the bore shape from specimen to specimen?

Number and position of the open tone holes, the apparent thickness of the
cylinder wall (tone hole depth), tone hole/bore diameter ratio, and more.
See "Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics, 2nd revised edition", Arthur H.
Benade, pp. 447-455, esp. section 21.4.B: "The Open-Hole Lattice Cutoff
Frequency".

mark C.

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