Klarinet Archive - Posting 000663.txt from 2004/07

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Material influence on sound...one more time
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:25:47 -0400

My goodness, this sounds like the movie line, "And the murderer
is ..." (Shot!!)

It would be very interesting to hear the results of this
experiment. How could such an important test be made without
knowing what happened?

The experiment described is certainly not simple if each tube
cost several hundred dollars. It could be duplicated much less
expensively with a wooden clarinet (perhaps several kinds of
wooden clarinets), a metel clarinet, hard rubber, etc. AND
BEHIND A SCREEN so that no one would have preconceptions based on
on sight. Furthermore, a lot more than one tone should be
sounded.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Charette [mailto:charette@-----.org]
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 11:02 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Material influence on sound...one more time

> From: dnleeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]
>
> Metal, glass, rubber, wood, you name it. Given any clarinet
> properly manufactured and using any of these media, I suggest
> that it is impossible to distinguish between them on the basis
of
> quality of sound.

I do know of one (unfortunately unpublished) experiment, and it's
relatively
simple to do.

10 tubes of 5 dissimilar materials were produced, with equal
lengths, equal
wall thicknesses, interior dimensions and finish quality as
similar as
possible, interior diameters the same (and sized to accept a
mouthpiece).
All dimensions were kept as exact as possible on modern
machinery. No keys
or toneholes. The tubes were not cheap to produce, I remember (at
least a
couple of hundred dollars each in machinist's time).

The same mouthpiece & player was used to create a tone on each.

If material doesn't make any difference then the sound produced
should be
statistically the same.

Unfortunately, I don't know the results of this experiment ...

This experiment really should be done again with more tubes /
material.

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