Klarinet Archive - Posting 000140.txt from 2010/08

From: "Keith Bowen" <keith.bowen@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] About clarinet acoustics
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:49:36 -0400

Only a few mouthpieces are conical - I think the old Boosey and Hawkes ones
were. Most are cylindrical, until of course the back start to taper down.
Then they are cylindrical with an approximately planar diagonal cutoff.

Keith

>> The only way out I can see is that the textbook "cylindrical bore"
>> is at best an approximation -- especially near the mouthpiece?
>> If the bore cross-section varies along its length, then that
>> shifts the node-antinode pattern, of course, as
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>> with the extreme
>> case of oboes and saxophones. =A0If you tell me how the
>> cross-section varies I could think about this a bit more.

Conically?

-Jennifer
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