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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2012-11-05 17:46
Could it be that those notes are at the point of the clarinet that looks most like "a neck" if the clarinet were some sort of beast?
...................Paul Aviles
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Author: janlynn
Date: 2012-11-05 17:54
paulllll ...... c'mon, im a gullable girl and i will tell my student that cuz i value your knowlwdge and opinions......
but i think my students would like that answer
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2012-11-05 18:03
Maybe because the "throat tones" use just a small portion of the total acoustic length of the clarinet, as a human's throat represents just a small portion of the total 'respiratory length' of the body (including lungs, etc.)? Mere speculation on my part.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2012-11-06 01:09
They're right at the top end of the instrument.
Clarinets have bum notes too - but that's more to do with the player though.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2012-11-06 01:23
Reallly, if you think of the mouthpiece as the head of a clarinet and the bell as the bottom or legs, the neck and throat would be where those notes are. That's what I've always used as an explantion. It's the "body" of the clarinet.
ESP eddiesclarinet.com
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Author: Campana
Date: 2012-11-06 11:01
I see it that the 6 main tone holes are in the body of the clarinet. The throat tones are played above the body tones and last up to Bb and then you go back into the body again. Calling this range "throat" seems a reasonable description.
I guess it could have just as easily have been named "neck tones"
Post Edited (2012-11-06 11:05)
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2012-11-06 15:15
The throat notes are needed to bridge the gap between the lower and upper register otherwise there'd be notes missing - the earliest clarinets built in recorder form didn't have a low E so the upper register B natural was missing.
Throat notes are unique to clarinets as the lower register goes right to the top of the instrument to meet the upper register notes at the bottom end of the instrument due to the odd harmonics (stopped tube harmonics) and the wide overblowing interval of a 12th instead of an 8ve as on other orchestral woodwinds.
Also makes the clarinet a versatile instrument with the widest basic range of all woodwinds having just under four 8ves (or four complete 8ves if it's a basset clarinet, basset horn or low C bass).
Flutes have three 8ves in their basic range (low C to top high C - piccolos from low D to top high C - the highest note on a piano or glockenspiel), oboes and saxes have two and a half (bottom Bb to high F or F#, or low A to high F or F# on baris) and bassoons have three 8ves and an augmented fourth from bottom Bb to high E (top space treble clef) or three and a perfect fifth on French bassoons as they go from bottom Bb up to high F (top line treble clef).
But unlike the clarinet, none of them utilise the shortest tube length for the highest low register note to the full tube length for the lowest upper register note.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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