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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2014-10-21 19:45
The new Cagima Project in France is an all-out effort of acoustical scientists and reed-instrument designers to discover and share what science can contribute to improved intonation and emission in those instruments, including the clarinet. If I understand this project correctly, it wants to break free from the secretive proprietary approach to clarinet design and attempt to develop knowledge that all clarinet makers can freely use.
"The Cagima Project focuses on flaws found in reed instruments in tuning, homogeneity of emitted sound, and timbre from both the perspective of the musician and also that of the instrument maker."
see http://cagima.ircam.fr.
Will the Cagima data go beyond what individual designers like Backun, Schille, Eaton,Rossi, Ridenour, the Yamaha, Buffet, Selmer, and Uebel companies have individually discovered about clarinet design? Could a better-tuned Buffet one day emerge from their efforts?
Post Edited (2014-10-22 20:05)
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Author: James S
Date: 2014-10-21 19:57
I hope so I voice so darn high sometimes. More importantly, it's wonderful to see a truly empirical approach being utilizing by major clarinet firms as opposed to small-sampling trial-and-error approaches!
James
Owner, James' Clarinet Shop
www.jamesclarinetshop.com
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Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2014-10-22 23:18
I have no argument with any attempts to improve our knowledge and understanding of instruments and acoustics.
Just be careful to avoid the ultimate euro/americas/asia style instrument designed by the worlds largest committee.
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2014-10-22 23:34
I'm glad that there's an "all-out effort" to address these huge problems, instead of the usual annoying minor stuff like poverty, disease, terrorism, etc. Who cares if the world is a mess as long as your clarinet (not you the player, but your clarinet) plays perfectly in tune?
Sheesh.....
Ben, I'm eagerly awaiting your view on this.....
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2014-10-23 03:29
Would it be better to let the medical researchers design clarinets and the acoustical researchers fight cancer and terrorism? Each according to his (her) lights and abilities. If my mouthpiece is chirping, I'm not going to send it to the head of the National Institutes of Health or the United Nations for refacing.
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Author: fskelley
Date: 2014-10-23 04:26
"Would it be better to let the medical researchers design clarinets and the acoustical researchers fight cancer and terrorism?"
...almost sounds like Harrison Bergeron. And I just deleted the sentence I wrote about what I thought was funny in HB when I read it way back in school, because in 2014 that might make somebody mad. We live in such a wimpy world now, sigh.
Stan in Orlando
EWI 4000S with modifications
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