Klarinet Archive - Posting 000198.txt from 2010/08

From: Nitai Levi <clarnibass@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] About clarinet acoustics
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:29:43 -0400

>> It means I've been right to be dividing the 'effective clarinet closed t=
ube' =

>>(the =

>>
>> distance between a little bit into the mouthpiece and slightly beyond th=
e first =

>>
>> open tonehole) to estimate where bore modifications most affect the =

>twelfths:-)

>> I don't have a thermometer -- and this IS Siena, therefore temperature i=
s =

>> important -- so the half-clarinet will have to wait.

>> Tony

How important is not to have curves in the bore, like a bass clarinet neck?=
If I =

understand, bows are a bit similar to slightly enlaging the bore at that po=
int. =

At least on the saxophone bow, not sure about bass clarinet neck. Because o=
ther =

than that, my bass clarinet is a straight cylidnrical bore and I can check =
both =

just the top joint (middle C fingering) or both joints without bell (low Db =

fingering) so it is just a closed pipe with no "last tone hole". I have a =

thermometer, even a funny one that looks like a pig :)=A0 I can also measur=
e =

anything with half a soprano clarinet. I just need to know what to measure =
:-)

Nitai

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