Klarinet Archive - Posting 000000.txt from 2007/08

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Clarinet Manufacture - Differences between French and German - Wood is a "Living" Material
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:44:49 -0400


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.

Tim,

You should stay....we all need the huge dose of reality you offer up.

I just love, when people on the list, in one post, talk about the "best,
brightest..etc, engineering available in the clarinet manufacturing
field...and then in another post...bring such voodoo, as "tapping" the wood
stock of clarinets..to determine if it's going to resonate. Resonate how,
when, why is it important...is it important? Tap, tap, tap.... :-) Anyone
home?

I wish you would stay and keep talking about this in simple engineering
terms. People need your help!

Thanks

Forest

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