Klarinet Archive - Posting 000212.txt from 2009/10

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: [kl] Coolest
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:32:59 -0400

And I add that the reason why it is more difficult to create a hole in the
clarinet to that produces a note that is in tune in bother registers has
something to do with the fact that the clarinet overblows a 12th.

For an oboe, putting a hole in the instrument that produces a well-pitched
note in both registers was much easier.

So I conclude that it must have been because a clarinet overblows a 12th
while an oboe overblows an octave.

Beyond that it's a mystery to me.

Dan Leeson
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From: "James Leonard Hobby" <jhobby@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 3:11 PM
Subject: [kl] Subject: Re: [kl] Coolest

> Actually, I couldn't. I've been watching this go back and forth -- and
> had seen Dan's remarks in earlier articles -- about clarinets only
> "allowed" to play in 2 keys (or only being written in 2 keys). I never
> could figure out why. NOW it's perfectly logical. Thanks for the
> clarfication. I guess my mind isn't in the right century. <g>
>
> Jim Hobby
>
>> I think you should understand why.
>>
>> In order to play in keys with sharps, the clarinet had to have additional
>> keys and holes put in it. It was not a big deal to put the hole in the
>> proper place so that it worked fine for the upper or the lower register,
>> but
>> it was very difficult to put the hole in a place with the note worked OK
>> for
>> BOTH registers. And that was the inhibiting factor which drove the
>> process
>> whereby multiply pitched clarinets came to be.
>>
>> The mentality (and it was damned clever) was this: if you can't play in a
>> particular key on the clarinet, then change the pitch of the clarinet.
>> Kind
>> of like being in a boat on a river with bridges that can raise up to
>> allow
>> the boat to pass through. But clarinets did not raise the bridge, they
>> lowered the water.
>>
>> Dan Leeson
>
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