Klarinet Archive - Posting 000730.txt from 2004/07

From: "Lars Kirmser" <musictrader@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Material influence on sound...one more time
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 13:16:42 -0400

The results were in fact: neither non-musicians nor the musicians included
in the blindfold test were able to agree on which was which.

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From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
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Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 11:02 AM
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 I do know of one (unfortunately unpublished) experiment, and it's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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