 The Clarinet BBoard
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Author: moolatte
Date: 2009-12-13 01:47
With your existing Bb clarinet, pull your mouthpiece out all the way, pull your bell out all the way, and pull the barrel out about just a bit. Maybe half a centimeter.
:)
Lame joke, I know.
Post Edited (2009-12-13 01:53)
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Author: BrianChau
Date: 2009-12-13 02:54
the problem is that the intervals are not wide enough, and the break is too wide. also, the top notes of each register become increasingly flat, while the bottom notes become increasingly sharp
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Author: kennychw
Date: 2009-12-13 04:18
Hello
This is how I got a free A clarinet from a Bb clarinet. Tried this a few years back.
http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=73228&t=73091
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Author: skygardener
Date: 2009-12-13 08:39
I have heard that there was a product in the 50s that was a thick plastic cord that you placed in the length of the instrument and had suspension wire that was held in the space between the mouthpiece and barrel. It brought the pitch down properly but was very thick and made things resistant.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2009-12-13 12:57
Has anyone experimented by sticking some kind of weight on the reed (on the flat side) to slow down the vibrations in a similar way a small amount of lead is used on free reeds (as in accordion/harmonium/melodion/etc.) to tune them?
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2009-12-13 14:09
Makes changing from Bb to A and back quickly in a symphony when you only have a few measures to switch just a bit difficult. How about just "lipping" it down? ESP http://eddiesclarinet.com
PS. No, not really!
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Author: Veldeb
Date: 2009-12-16 15:38
In the 70's we used a paperclip bent into a V shape with the serifs and a piece of old telephone cable that would hang in the top joint tenon from the register tube down to the second hole of the lower joint.... it was stuffy (as you could imagine) but worked.
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Author: timg
Date: 2009-12-16 22:14
Chris P wrote:
> Has anyone experimented by sticking some kind of weight on the
> reed (on the flat side) to slow down the vibrations in a
> similar way a small amount of lead is used on free reeds (as in
> accordion/harmonium/melodion/etc.) to tune them?
Unfortunately this wouldn't work, because it's not the reed but the air column which is resonating. Whilst the reeds in an accordion must each be tuned, the reed on a clarinet has no natural resonance (not within the range of the clarinet anyway). If you did add enough weight to give the reed a natural resonant frequency, then you'd only be able to play that note -- just as each accordion reed can only play one note.
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