Klarinet Archive - Posting 000905.txt from 2003/03

From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Introduction
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 07:31:09 -0500

Tony,

At 00:58 3/23/03 +0000, you wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 19:11:52 -0500, gkidder@-----.org said:
> >
> > We discussed this some years ago, and I reported that I had also tried
> > the experiment, but with a contra-bassoon reed and a man who know how
> > to play it. Even with this larger reed, the clarinet overblows an
> > octave.
>
>In all parts of the register, George?

As I remember it, we tried a number of different notes, and they all
shifted an octave when the register key was opened. It was not so easy (so
my bassoonist friend reports) to get the thing to sound at all, but when it
did, the register key was an octave key.

> > But again, this larger reed is not large enough,

Not as large as a clarinet reed

>Not large enough for what?
>
> > and is not coupled smoothly to the bore of the instrument, as the cork
> > and tube create a discontinuity which cannot be avoided in a simple
> > experiment.
>
>So, do you mean that an even larger reed would do something different?
>Or, more the same?-)
>
>Puzzled,

So, vide your previous post, get yourself a bassoonist friend and a cork!

>Tony
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>... If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
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George Kidder
Bar Harbor, ME

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