Klarinet Archive - Posting 000867.txt from 2003/04

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Rebecca's project, and string down bore of Bb clarinet; was, history
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:43:23 -0400

On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 21:05:08 +0000, rjbrennan1221@-----.com said:

> Patricia Said:
>
> > However, I'd think that would make the pitch higher, not lower. Is
> > it because the string is inserted between two of the upper joints,
> > extending the length?
>
> Exactly!
>
> This is where Becca the science nerd comes in. Soon as you said that
> it turned into a concert A I knew how it worked. Putting the shoe
> string in their takes up space in the air column, which I guess you
> could say makes the bore longer depending on how you look at it. That
> isn't the way I look at it though. What is happening is the string is
> taking up space in the bore which gives the air less room to ummmm...
> resonate?and makes it more narrow on the inside and that makes the air
> column longer. I guess that is what you mean by extending the leangth.
> If my vocabulary skills were as good as my science skills I would be
> able to describe this.
>
> I think if I were to do this I would go buy a clean shoe string. I
> can't stand the thoughts of a dirty show string in my clarinet!

We had a discussion about this a year or so back. I think the post that
contains the most information is:

http://www.woodwind.org/Databases/Logs/2000/11/000605.txt

Mark's email-address-deleting software mangles one bit of text, which
should read:

> A few years ago I had to play a concert including Wagner's Siegfried
> Idyll and Wesendonck Lieder, Brahms violin concerto and something
> else, that was being done on period instruments, at A 435.

(There was originally an '=' between the 'A' and the '435', and I think
the '=' is part of a coding of an 'at' sign. That triggers the deletion
of what follows.)

Tony
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