 The Clarinet BBoard
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Author: John
Date: 2002-12-14 03:05
I just happened upon this web site. Has anyone had any experience with this? Sounds off the wall. Couldn't find anything with a search. http://www.dmamusic.org/acousticoils/index.html
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2002-12-14 13:32
For $35, perhaps you could experiment with a piece of cardboard, something off the back of a legal pad - for instance.
If this sort of thing was truly beneficial, don't you suppose that instrument would be designed with abrupt steps built in the bore?
To use analogy - High Rev engine tuners go to great trouble to remove rough edges and hard transitions from their intake manifolds... I'm pretty sure that if these are placed in the wrong postition that destructive interference could be difficult to control...
I would rather spend $35 getting my horn serviced by my tech!
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Author: John
Date: 2002-12-14 15:30
S.B.: I agree, I was just wondering if anyone has actually tried this, or at least a piece of legal pad?
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-12-16 17:25
This came up several years ago. See http://www.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=1085&t=985.
I'm very doubtful. Remember that the clarinet's sound is NOT made by air moving down the instrument. Rather, the breath makes the reed vibrate, which makes the air that's already in the instrument vibrate. Compared with the amount of air in the instrument, the amount supplied by the lungs is quite small.
In the notes for one of the Dennis Brain recordings, his successor Alan Civil says Dennis told him to fold a paper match and stick it in a valve slide to stabilize a bad note.
It may work on horn, but not on clarinet. Like most people, I've tried putting various stuff in the bore, starting with the famous piece of string to turn a Bb into an A clarinet, and going on to bits of tape and modeling clay. Each addition has been a disaster.
Still, the placebo effect is very powerful... ;-)
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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