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Re: What is/was wrong with big bore clarinets?

Author: Steven Ocone
Date: 2017-02-24 04:46

Many different ingredients determine how an instrument tunes. Modern soprano clarinets have a reduction in bore diameter from the mouthpiece or the top of upper joint to somewhere in the upper joint (around the throat Ab in an R13). This is what we are call a small bore clarinet. It is a remedy for end correction.

The wave length created in a clarinet is actually longer than the length of the tube. Put another way, the frequency actually goes a little farther than the first open tone hole. How much farther depends on the frequency. Higher frequencies go farther down the tube. This means the higher harmonics will be relatively flat compared to the fundamental. This would be noticed in the middle section of the clarinet. The reduced section at the top of the clarinet is meant to correct this.
I believe that the size of the tone hole and thickness of the body also make a difference. Consider flutes that have a thin body and large tone holes.

The wide twelfths at the top and bottom of the clarinet are due to the limitations of using a single multipurpose register tube. This stuff makes my head spin.

Steve Ocone

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