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RE: clarinet mutes

Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-07-13 02:38

paul wrote:
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Okay, I can partially "buy" the premise that all of the sound comes out of the toneholes for a clarinet. But, that doesn't explain why the bell has to be on the bottom as a part of the complete instrument and why its shape is important to the tone and intonation of the overall instrument.
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The bell acts as the bottom hole on a clarinet. There's always going to be some effect on other notes, but it is minimal.
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Why, for instance, does the Bb soprano clarinet play at least one full note higher without the bell than with it?
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That's very strange - because it's not true. Try it. The upper notes don't change, and only the long note doesn't work. I just pulled the bell off my clarinet and double checked against a tuning meter. If you mean why the long note is higer - it's beacue the open hole is now at the end of the lower joint, not at the end of the bell.
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Why, for instance, would the deformed shape of the bell on the inside of a less desirable horn make such a difference in the tonal quality of the produced sound if the bell was so insignificant?
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Explain yourself. Some bells are not round and command more money! The long notes are affected by the bell, of course, since the bell extends the acoustic length, and shape will have something to do with the quality of sound, especially with the long notes.

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