Klarinet Archive - Posting 000341.txt from 2006/10

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fbjacobo@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] funny note
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:57:23 -0500

Howard,
Could you be describing the buzzing of a vibrating key? How about the
buzz loose skin on a pad? Just a thought...

Fred Jacobowitz

Kol Haruach Klezmer Band
Ebony and Ivory Duo
On Oct 25, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Howard Shertzer wrote:

> Dear fellow clarinetists,
>
> On my R13 A clarinet and my E11 C clarinet, one note in the upper
> register (A) has a strange crackling sound, quite hard to describe.
> It is like a rasp, or a false note on a violin. Only the A, not Ab or
> Bb.
>
> I do not hear this on my matched R13 Bb, using the same Bay
> mouthpiece, ligature and reed. On the C clarinet I use a Grabner
> mouthpiece.
>
> An assortment of reeds from different makers and strengths, and
> different ligatures, sound the same.
>
> So I believe that it is in the clarinet, not me, not the mouthpiece.
> It seems strange that precisely the same funny note happens on two
> different clarinets.
> ( it wasnt so funny when I recently played Mozart clarinet quintet
> with a serious string quartet).
>
> Any thoughts on what it might be or how to solve the problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Howard
>
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