Klarinet Archive - Posting 000272.txt from 2010/11

From: Delceg Mike <m.delceg@-----.nz>
Subj: [kl] (no subject)
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:07:34 -0500

Physics theory says that you have changed from a tube that is closed
on one end, which would overblow 12ths, to one that is open at both
ends (like the flute) which overblows an octave. It is news to me
that a double reed will do this, however, although playing an oboe
occasionally should have revealed this.

Mike

> If you will take a clarinet, remove the mouthpiece, fashion a cork
> with a
> hole in the center, place the cork in the upper end of the barrel, and
> insert an oboe reed in the hole, playing it will result in the
> instrument
> overblowing an octave. What this says is that the characteristic of
> overblowing a 12th must come not from the straight tube but rather
> from the
> mouthpiece and single reed combination, though I have no idea what
> causes
> the mouthpiece and reed to behave the way it does.

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