Klarinet Archive - Posting 000689.txt from 2003/08

From: "david lowther" <dlowther@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Fw: [kl] closing the reed
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:09:55 -0400

Hmmm,

My reed closes because the gods don't want me to sound good, they tell me
that I should have taken up the trumpet, which only has 3 notes to deal
with. I am SO jealous.

mary

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Pay" <Tony@-----.uk>
Subject: Re: [kl] closing the reed

> 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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