Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2010-05-18 22:08
Kalakos wrote:
>> It narrows the bore, bringing the tone of a Bb (mine was Albert system) down to an A.>>
Very interesting; I never knew that such a thing had been marketed.
As I wrote in my previous post, the damping effect is more significant than I had thought in my November 2000 message to the Klarinet list -- it's not just the narrowing of the bore that makes it work.
I know this because my nephew Lawrence Dunn recently wrote a piece for six clarinets and almglocken (it won a BBC composers competition last year), and the clarinets were supposed to be pitched variously at A=440, 436, 432 and 427Hz. Various efforts to use plastic rods proved ineffective, and I eventually succeeded with 3 different sorts of shoelace.
However, the piece -- which was provocatively titled, 'Oy':-) -- needed to be very loud and aggressive. The effect of the shoelaces was to suppress that quality more than Lawrence wanted, even though the actual intonation was surprisingly good. In the end, the players settled for pulling out and using tuning rings, accepting the approximate intonation.
You notice that your device is to a certain extent absorbent, being made of some sort of woven material.
Tony
|
|
The Clarinet BBoard
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
