Klarinet Archive - Posting 000236.txt from 2008/11

From: "Marcia Bundi" <msbundi357@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinet - wood, metal, or carrot?
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:04:25 -0500

Ah. Thank you, I had overlooked the bore dimensions, although the diameter
of the mouthpiece and of the funnel look to be different, which would argue
for a non-cylindircal bore.

Marcia in MT

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Clarinet - wood, metal, or carrot?

> On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:25:22 -0700, "Marcia Bundi"
> <msbundi357@-----.net> wrote:
> > Cute! But, take a look at that mouthpiece -- seems to me that this might
be
> > more of a carrophone than a carrinet.
> >
>
> No. The mouthpiece is not relevant to the classification. If you put a
> sax mouthpiece on your clarinet and played it, it would still sound like
> a clarinet. The carrot has a cylindrical bore, and the reed makes it a
> "closed pipe", acoustically speaking. That makes it a clarinet. To be
> a saxophone, it would have to have a conical bore.
>
> I have to say that I, too, am somewhat skeptical of the clip. I made a
> clarinet out of PVC pipe a couple of years ago from instructions I found
> on the web (including mouthpiece!). It played adequately, but even with
> very careful placement of the holes and the hole sizes, its tuning was
> highly questionable. This carrot was nicely in tune (and there's a
> phrase I never thought I would utter), despite his apparently cavalier
> free-hand drilling.
>
> Maybe Mr Pollak had the hole positions pre-marked on his carrot blank.
> I certainly WANT to believe it...
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
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