Klarinet Archive - Posting 000670.txt from 2003/08

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] closing the reed
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:11:40 -0400

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:38:44 +0100, I said:

> On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:09:35 -0400, musicians@-----.net said:
>
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > It's driven by the Bernoulli Effect
>
> 'The Bernoulli Effect' is an abstraction, that can't 'drive' anything.

And of course, if we're going down that road, 'airpressure' is an
abstraction, too.

What 'really' drives reed closure is all those molecules of air inside
your mouth zipping around, and how some of them interact with the reed
in conjunction with the molecules of air zipping around inside the
mouthpiece...

Tony
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