Klarinet Archive - Posting 000667.txt from 2004/07

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Material influence on sound...one more time
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 15:16:15 -0400

If what you say is true, and I have no reason to doubt it, then
the entire question of materials affecting sound character is an
even greater conundrem than ever. It allows any maker to assert
that "our design produces the finest sound" (whatever that means)
and who is to challenge it?

While I think your point a very valid one, the argument has
always been that the sound character of a clarinet was dependent
on the medium. There never was an addendum to that questionable
statement assigning some other part of the character of the
clarinet to the instrument's design. One could even argue that
the character is related to quality of manufacture.

Finally this. No one has made any assertions about the most
important part of any particular person's sound character, namely
the characteristics of their body; i.e., lung capacity, cavities,
head shape, etc.

And what this all says is that the whole question of the sound
character of a clarinet is anomolous!!

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Van Cott [mailto:gary@-----.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 11:50 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Material influence on sound...one more time

I think the idea of the experiment it to make the instruments as
much alike
as possible. Otherwise you are testing the design of the
instrument rather
than the material.

Gary
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At 11:24 AM 7/17/04, you wrote:
>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

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