Klarinet Archive - Posting 000178.txt from 2004/09

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Cracking a glass vase with high notes?
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:20:05 -0400

Using Google with the two compound keywords "broken glass" and "high note"
one gets 394 hits. The first, from the University of Salford (UK), offers
a video showing the process in action. I haven't looked at the other 393
hits! 8-)

Oliver

At 09:29 AM 9/10/2004, you wrote:

>Have any of you ever had the case where, immediately after playing some high
>notes, a vase, or glass breaks?
>My beautiful thick blue glass vase (about 6 years old and in the shape of an
>old-fashioned vase), cracked as I was coming down the stairs to answer the
>phone. (Interrupted practice). The phone was near the vase, where it stood
>on a table. A loud crack erupted, giving me a big fright and left a neat
>hole about 1" in diameter and then cracks appeared and spread all over the
>vase, with the water pouring out. Prior to this I only went as high as D
>above staff ( a Friedrich Demnitz piece, #52 from "80 graded studies for
>Clarinet, Book Two" by John Davies & Paul Harris).
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>Can anyone give me an idea if this was indeed related to my screech stick?
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>Karin Berman
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