Klarinet Archive - Posting 000229.txt from 2007/07

From: X-BakerBotts-MailScanner-tom.henson@-----.com
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Clarinet Manufacture - Differences between French and German - Wood is a "Living" Material
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:56:14 -0400

Tim,

You may be forgetting that the blanks have been pre-drilled and are
hollow. Even a hollow 4x4 will make a sound when you tap it because of
the air inside.

Tom Henson
=20

<< 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.

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

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