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 Resistant clarinet?
Author: Old Geezer 
Date:   2006-04-25 15:58


What exactly do you guys mean when you
describe one clarinet as a shade more
resistant than another?

Please be as verbose as you like...a some-
what perplexed amateur really wants to
know!

Thanks.

Clarinet Redux

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 Re: Resistant clarinet?
Author: johng 2017
Date:   2006-04-25 19:12

One of my young clarinet students upgraded from a no-name plastic student instrument to a Selmer Signet wooden clarinet. Her first comment was: Eeeeewwww, it is harder to blow. I think that pretty much sums it up.

When I pointed out to her that she now sounds better, she accepted that she would just have to get used to it. Probably the best way to know what we mean is to try it yourself with an easy blowing student line clarinet and compare it to an instrument for a more advanced player.

johng

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 Re: Resistant clarinet?
Author: Synonymous Botch 
Date:   2006-04-25 19:50

"Tone Color" should not always mean red in the face...

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 Re: Resistant clarinet?
Author: sfalexi 
Date:   2006-04-25 20:11

To me, resistance can be summed up in backpressure. if you blow through a clarinet and the air instantly goes through, that's free-blowing. If there's backpressure and it seems like you have to try harder for the sound to come out and for the air to go through, it's resistant.

Alexi

Note - your setup can greatly influence resistance as well (reeds, mouthpiece, barrel). It's not always the clarinet.

US Army Japan Band

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 Re: Resistant clarinet?
Author: tictactux 2017
Date:   2006-04-25 22:22

Note - your setup can greatly influence resistance as well (reeds, mouthpiece, barrel). It's not always the clarinet.
Ayup. Sometimes it's just a forgotten swab in the bell...  ;)

--
Ben

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 Re: Resistant clarinet?
Author: Paul Aviles 
Date:   2006-04-26 11:43

Dear Geezer,


The difference between the feel of a Bb vs. an A (Boehm system that is) would be a good example. When good clarinet players discuss good clarinets, the difference described is rather minute but often correlates to the freer blowing horn sounding brighter and the more resistant horn being a little darker.

Would you guys agree that in general Selmers are free blowing compared to Buffet 13s?? That would be my assessment. Selmer tried to address this difference with the "Recital" which achieves its more resistant feel by having a body with 1.5 times more wood (it's fat and heavy).

DO NOT confuse this with a horn that is resistant because there are leaks, or one that is harder to play simply because the internal pitch from one note to the next is wildly different.

.......Paul Aviles



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 Re: Resistant clarinet?
Author: BobD 
Date:   2006-04-26 13:34

"Sometimes it's just a swab in the bell"

That a playful friend has put there......

Bob Draznik

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 Re: Resistant clarinet?
Author: Bnewbs 
Date:   2006-04-26 13:35

Old Selmers like BT, CT, 9 and the like are less resistant than R13s, but newer 10SII, Recital and especially signatures play with more resistance than the Buffets or Leblancs I have played. The new ones tend to tune really well and play darker, but with resistance.

Ben

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