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 Re: Why do clarinet tone-holes necessarily have to be round?
Author: Caroline Smale 
Date:   2017-04-03 23:30

Anyone who thinks that the bassoon is better in tune than a clarinet has clearly never played the bassoon.
The fact that the bassoon can be played in tune is entirely down to the skill of the player, something of course that also applied to the great clarinettists of the past with their more compromised, tuning-wise, clarinets.

As David mentions the surface shape of a bassoons toneholes are a result of the often accute angles at which the tonehole chimneys have to be bored in order to approximate the corrrect acoustical position.

The fact that this has resulted in the unique tonal qualities of the bassoon and efforts to "improve" the mechanical and acoustical positioning say by using a Boehm like structure has only served to destroy the character of the sound is of course another big factor.
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