Klarinet Archive - Posting 000021.txt from 2007/08

From: X-BakerBotts-MailScanner-tom.henson@-----.com
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Clarinet Manufacture - Differences between French and German - Wood is a "Living" Material
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:14:11 -0400

Hi Alexander,

One of things that I liked from the beginning about the bore design of
the Wurlitzer Reform-Boehm clarinet is the way that the clarion, and
especially the altissimo register sound.

They sound very much in character with the other register of the
clarinet in that they retain a full core of partials without sounding
thin or edgy. Starting around the G above the staff they also take on a
bell like character which is very much like you hear on a Ohler system
German clarinet. It is a very focused and centered sound that "rings" is
the best way I can describe it.=20

It does not feel as if all the sound is focused in the mouthpiece/barrel
area of the clarinet and I attribute this to the bore design and it is
one of the things I really like. No more wimpy, thin, shrill, or edgy
high notes.

Tom Henson

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Brash [mailto:brash@-----.edu]=20
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 1:14 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Cc: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Re: Clarinet Manufacture - Differences between French
and German - Wood is a "Living" Material

Not particularly relevant to this debate, but there are actually two
standing waves to consider, the air column, and reed. At high
frequencies the resonant response curve of the reed vibrating well
overpowers that of the tube, and at anything above around high G, the
clarinet even stops behaving like an ideal tube all together. I'd
imagine as a result that bore design etc has less of an effect in these
ranges?

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