Klarinet Archive - Posting 000665.txt from 2003/08

From: "Musician" <musicians@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] closing the reed
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:09:35 -0400

>
>One has to ask: what do you mean by 'closing the reed'?
>
>You might mean that during a note, the reed closes against the mouthpiece
>during the cycle, and that's certainly driven by airpressure.
>

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It's driven by the Bernoulli Effect
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/BernoulliEffect.html which when air
is blown across, the air pressure lowers thus pulling the reed closed. The
reed strength pulls the reed back away from the Mouthpiece and completes the
vibration.

David Blumberg
http://mp3.toptempo.com/genres/Classical@-----.htm

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