Klarinet Archive - Posting 000228.txt from 2007/07

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Clarinet Manufacture - Differences between French and
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:57:56 -0400

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:24:03 -0500, <Tom.Henson@-----.com> wrote:
> The tap test they perform for resonance is akin to taking a mallet and
> hitting a wooden sound bar on a marimba.

A clarinet blank is ENTIRELY different from the bars on a marimba. The
clarinet blanks are thicker and longer, and grenadilla is incredibly
denser and oilier than the rosewood usually used in marimbas. The
"resonance" must be very near zero.

I'm going to back out of this thread now, because I understand how much
tradition and inertia is involved here, but I don't believe that tapping
on a clarinet blank would be any more satisfying or revealing than
tapping on an 8 foot 4x4.

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Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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