Author: Micke Isotalo ★2017
Date: 2014-11-17 00:56
This was the Ridenour video I referred to, titled "Getting out the grunts", in two parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaF2lDfGHJE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tgvlqgGJDA
These videos are actually primarily about narrowing the gap between the tone hole and the pad of an open register key, and thus "getting out the grunts". But when applied the other way round by widening that gap you can instead 'get out the hissing'. The latter part of the second video issues this hissing/buzzing problem.
By the way, the original gap between the register key pad and the tone hole was about 1,5 mm on my instruments. Then I just took a grip around the key at the tone hole and bended it outwards. Depending on the alloy in that key there could of course be a risk of cracking it if bending too much.
Concerning avoiding possible grunting, which I haven't noticed in my case, there is also the possibility not to press the register key all the way to the bottom while playing, and thus reducing that gap to a preferred level - perhaps when playing pianissimo in the clarion register, or perhaps playing leaps from "long tube to short tube", as it's called in that video. In other instances you can press the key to the bottom and enjoy crystal clear (or at least close to ...) B and Bb-tones.
Micke Isotalo
|
|
The Clarinet BBoard
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
