Klarinet Archive - Posting 000234.txt from 2003/06

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] clarinet vs sax mouthpieces
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 07:47:05 -0400

At 12:35 PM 6/8/2003 +0000, Resurgere Jones wrote:
>...And furthermore, I've never heard this huge change in tone or response
>that is supposedly introduced when a gap emerges in the bore. At various
>times for various reasons I have experimented with pulling out slightly
>each and every joint on the instrument (once, all of them at once, to try
>to get through a rehearsal with an unbearably flat piano). While it has
>the obvious (and desired) effect of modifying the scale of the instrument,
>its effect on tone quality, stuffiness, etc. is non-existent. Anyone who
>says different is trying to sell you tuning rings.

There is not so much a change in tone and response, but further and
UNdesired effects on intonation occur, especially in the throat
region. Tuning rings, by filling in the relatively large discontinuity in
the bore (from inner diameter of the bore to OUTER diameter of the tenon
and back), eliminate that problem. The good news is that tuning rings are
really a CHEAP fix. If you are at all handy, you can make them yourself
out of hose washers or some other materials.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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