Klarinet Archive - Posting 000901.txt from 2003/03

From: "Dee D. Flint" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Introduction
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 22:56:19 -0500

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From: "Dan Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Introduction

> >
> > Conversely, the clarinet is a cylindrical bore. If you use an oboe reed
in
> > a cork, it will still overblow a 12th as you still have a cylindrical
pipe
> > close at one end.
>
> I respectfully disagree with your basic assertion. I've tried playing a
> clarinet with a cork and an oboe reed stuck in it, and, as I described,
> it overblows an octave, noth the 12th that you suggest.
>
> I recognize that this is anomalous, but that's what happens.
>
> Therefore, I think that you are coming at this from the premise that
> what I say cannot be the case. But it is, and until you try the
> experiment yourself (or believe someone else who has), we just aren't
> communicating.

It would either come from the major discontinuity in size between the reed
opening and the clarinet opening or the assembly simply acts like a cylinder
open at both ends when the double reed is put on it. So it would not
actually be an anomaly but the natural consequence of acoustics.

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