Klarinet Archive - Posting 000077.txt from 2008/09

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Warm Air / Cold Air
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:02:21 -0400

Keith wrote:
> Maybe so, but isn't it simpler, as well as more accurate, to say blow harder or softer?

Probably. I'm not trying to defend the terminology, only speculate
about where it came from -- hence the 'experiment' whose dumbness was
quite deliberate. ;-)

Possibly someone, somewhere, was also remembering stuff they learned in
school about forcing gases through very narrow openings to supercool
them -- hence the 'tighter mouth corners for cold air' stuff -- without
appreciating the scale of pressure required...

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