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Re: The Clarinet does not need air

Author: Clarence Beale
Date: 2018-09-14 00:55

Tony,

You wrote:

“You don’t want to worry about this Bernoulli thing….it’s not an important part of a player’s concerns.”

Why is understanding how fast moving air causes the clarinet reed to vibrate via the Bernoulli Principle of Fluid Dynamics a “worry” and “not an important part of a player’s concerns”? For me, understanding this enables me to produce a better clarinet sound more efficiently.

You also wrote:

“There is a difference between that pressure [inside the mouth] and the pressure in the mouthpiece. This pressure difference is what drives the vibration of the reed.”

It seems to me that the most important pressure differential is the difference in the air pressure inside the mouth and the air pressure in the space immediately above the mouthpiece facing rails and behind the back of the reed. That space above the mouthpiece rails isn’t inside the mouthpiece at all.

My ultimate mechanical concern when playing the clarinet is how to get the clarinet reed to vibrate most efficiently. No clarinet teacher ever told me how to do that. I have never read in the many journal articles and books written by clarinetists how to do that. I had to discover that on my own with help from some physicists interested in musical acoustics. Once I discovered how fast moving air causes the clarinet reed to vibrate via the Bernoulli Principle my mental image of how I use moving air to create the clarinet sound completely changed, for the better in my opinion. I wish I had known this information when I started learning how to play the clarinet.

Clarence

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