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Author: Eoin
Date: 2000-03-29 11:42
Why are clarinets made with open finger holes, instead of the covered type that you get in oboes?
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-03-29 16:45
Prob. the simple-minded answer is "thats just the way it developed, [in these first 300 years] from the recorder types for full-tone-hole-venting, using "covered" tone-holes only where necessary". Brymer on page 46 speaks of the Klose-Boehm collaboration utilizing flute developments of ring-keys for venting and consequent tone-hole locating reasons. There should be a lot of discussion in our "good" books. Don
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Author: Donn
Date: 2000-03-29 22:02
IMHO, seems like the more pads, the more trouble
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2000-03-30 07:33
In short I also wonder why. At first I thought covered holes may need chimneys like covered flutes but this seems untrue.(Flute has both covered and open systems.French people like open and old German people liked closed system.But Taffanel and Moyse used open system. I am little surprised to find clarinet was first developed based on Behm's open system flute.)
Another thought:Oboe is far more perfect acoustic machine,whereas clarinet tones usually deviate from the equal tempered scale 3-4 cents even by present clarinetts.
(This may be caused by its odd number overtone series. Flute and oboe have octave gap series maybe more acoustically reasonable.)
So,it may need some countermeasures to change intonations.
Open tone holes make this possible, since putting ring only,or partial closing of tone holes are very usual way to change intonations for French style open tone holes flutes.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-03-30 16:49
The oboes in the 1800's were largely open-hole [Military-simple versions] and for concert use were "modernized" in a series of steps to the Full Conservatory model, which except {again} for the German model is quite standardized. The oboe family also has a very interesting history! Don
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Author: Ginny
Date: 2000-03-30 21:22
So we can play the gliss for Rhapsody in Blue.
Ginny
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Author: ron b.
Date: 2000-03-30 23:39
Ginny,
Can't think of a better reason than that....
Probably why the plateau horns didn't get very far.
ron b.
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Author: ron b.
Date: 2000-03-31 00:23
Ever try making soap bubbles with a 'closed' hole clarinet?
ron b.
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Author: Kontragirl
Date: 2000-04-03 01:24
I always thought it gave a different tone. I remember when a friend of mine got an open hole flute with aligned (sp?) keys, the works. The teacher had her compare her sound to one of the other flutes with a typical student model. Needless to say, the difference was clear.
Maybe I'm not sure about your question, but I can tell you why altos and below have closed finger holes :o)
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