Klarinet Archive - Posting 000465.txt from 2004/11

From: "Fernando Silveira" <fernandounirio@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] silver keys
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:10:27 -0500

Hi Tom.
Beside aethetics, nickel is cheaper comparing with silver.
My personal reason to preffer silver is because I fell that silver offer to
me more precision on fingering. I had a nickel clarinet that all the time my
litle fingers glide from the key because of my wet hand. For me it is not
good and do not happens with silver.
On flute matters I could say to you that the sound of all metal instruments
will be diferent, too, because the blend of its material (i.e. vibration of
its body). The flute body wall is very thinn, and the blend of materials it
is made makes the felling diferent. I think it hapens in all metal
instruments.

Best

Fernando Silveira

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Flavel" <tom@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 2:54 PM
Subject: [kl] silver keys

> Hi,
>
> I have a question to which I've never been able to find a satisfactory
> answer: Why are silver (plated?) keys considered "better" than nickle?
> I'm struggling to see how they'd affect the sound, so I assume it's a
> purely tactile preference...
>
> For that matter, why are flutes made of silver? Does it produce a better
> tone because of the inner surface of the bore is made of silver?
>
> If so, would an ideal sax be made of silver, too? I assume brass is
> therfore used because a solid silver saxophone or trombone, etc, would
> be prohibitivley expensive (though I've seen $14k solid silver flutes,
> which I believe somebody was mentioning in another thread).
>
> And the thought occurs that metal clarinets and the other "silver" brass
> instruments must be made of nickle, then?
>
> Ok, so that was several questions :)
>
> Thanks for any input,
>
> --
> Tom
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