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Author: alanporter
Date: 2008-09-02 20:42
Fat fingers, thin fingers, flabby fingers, firm fingers. These must make a difference to the volume of air within a finger-closed tone hole. Does this make any difference to the tone or pitch ? Does it make a difference whether you press hard or lightly over the hole ? Or is it just my imagination ?
tiaroa@shaw.ca
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Author: skygardener
Date: 2008-09-03 01:04
It could only make a difference if you push so lightly that you are not sealing the hole.
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2008-09-03 01:34
I think it would only make a difference to the player, if at all. ESP
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Author: mrn
Date: 2008-09-03 02:52
If you were to make some kind of computer model of the bore of a clarinet and simulated different finger presses, where a differing amount of finger enters the hole, you'd probably measure some kind of effect on the tone or resonance response, but I imagine it would be so minute as to be negligible.
Plus, I think you could only consistantly measure this sort of thing with a computer model, because in real life there are so many other factors that come into play and that are known to have a pronounced effect on tone that you'd never be able to isolate the effect of finger pressure like you could in a computer (and even with a computer, you could only work with approximations and your result is only as good as your model).
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2008-09-03 06:07
People with different size fingers might need different height of the ring keys (when pressed).
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Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2008-09-03 19:27
clarnibass, in practical terms they do i.e. thin fingers need higher rings and fat ones lower setting if the pad closed by the ring is going to seal reliably and the whole set up feel comfortable. I see many instruments with very poor set-up in this respect.
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2008-09-04 05:46
Norman, what you say is right (though it depends on a specific person too), but I'm not sure what you meant. Did I give the impression I was refering to non-practical terms?
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Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2008-09-04 19:17
Clarnibass, didn't mean anything complicated, just used "practical" to mean normal every day playing activity versus any esoteric considerations about volume etc.
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