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Re: 3D printing and clarinets

Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2020-04-04 18:58

Hi Ken,

Thanks for mentioning that. Would you mind my asking where clarinet research is all published and how we can see your collection of papers on Academia?

I searched for academic papers on the workings of clarinets, but there seemed to be very few of them in traditional academic journals. Then I saw that there are "The Clarinet Journal" and the magazine of the Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain, but it's not clear to me whether these are archived by the Universities, and they don't seem to be open access, or considering becoming open access.

Asking around about the science behind the reeds, it seems as though most of this has been done in the companies that make the reeds, and is not published.

I just wondered if there is a "clarinet science" community, publishing open access work to any extent, or even proper text books that are offered for sale? I've seen Joe Wolfe's work in Australia, but that is the only actual publishing research group I've seen.

I find it really interesting, because as a new player I've really noticed that most of the books contain very little real information on the technical side of playing, and I'm having to get most of my information from this forum.

I find it really surprising that in a highly technical discipline like this, the body of community knowledge is still being passed from generation to generation largely by word of mouth.

I have a feeling that if someone took the time, they could extract a huge amount of knowledge from the back-catalogue of this forum and write and absolutely brilliant textbook.

(Ponders how the whole community is in lock-down with time our hands...)

Thanks!

Jen

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