Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2014-11-20 17:15
Hi all.
I'd like to better understand the "throat" Bb key by posing a hypothetical question if I might.
Suppose I charged you with the mission of making a clarinet where the "throat" Bb sounded infinitely better than it typicaly does when using the left hand's thumb and pointer finger only, even if doing so had to render some/all other notes on the instrument lousy sounding in all ways (pitch, color, clarity, etc.), but reasonably capable of being produced.
What changes might you make to the instrument, in terms of things like tone hole position and size? Would you offer different answers if I told you that you could design the clarinet with or without need for a register key?
I don't seek here methods to make this note sound better with alternate fingers. That knowledge I'm good with.
I'd just like to understand better the tradeoffs that were involved in having the register key serve the dual process if you will, of "overblowing" notes (i.e. dropping harmonics when the register key is pressed, so as to produce a note that's a 12th above the note generated with the same fingering, only without the octave key pressed) AND turning a throat "A" into a throat "A#/Bb."
I must admit that the use of acoustical math to explain this, where the "only numbers on the page are the page numbers," (an old math teacher's way of describing math books on advanced subject matter) might throw me.
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