Klarinet Archive - Posting 000301.txt from 2010/11

From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] What is a clarinet?
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:24:02 -0500

The same thing occurs with a contrabassoon reed, which is closer to the
"right" size.

George

At 06:30 AM 11/18/2010, you wrote:
>On 11/18/2010 01:43 AM, Dan Leeson wrote:
> > 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.
>
>That'd be because the effect of having a consistently narrow length of
>tube (the oboe reed) connected to a much wider tube (the clarinet bore)
>is effectively turning the overall bore shape into something that is
>approximately a cone rather than a cylinder ...
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