Author: Don Poulsen
Date: 2000-01-12 18:21
As I recall from an earlier discussion on this bulletin board, a thread hung down the bore of the clarinet is a method of directing the condensation down the inside of the instrument so that it doesn't enter the tone holes. It may change the effective inner diameter of the bore, but tuning is determined by the length of the bore, not its diameter. And I would expect that you would have to use a fairly thick cord to affect the tone - not tuning - of the instrument. I will grant that hanging a string down the inside of the instrument may lower its intonation if, by doing so, you end up creating a larger gap between the two pieces of the instrument where you have the end of the string wedged.
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