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Author: Ken Mills
Date: 2006-06-16 22:09
Dear People Outdoors; I am mainly concerned about the clarion register but don't know anything about acoustics. But I know how the air column responds in various equipment. I want the long-pipe notes to sound big and fat, strong, and be responsive. And the upper left hand notes are not to sound thin but liquid and full. So I have the Pete Fountain 15mm bore in my obsolete Vito V40 with a barrel that is slightly conical to get bigger as it goes down to the upper joint. And I am using the Selmer CP100 mouthpiece with the deep baffle and big throat with the gradual tip opening of 1.22mm, it uses a soft Vandoren strength 2 reed which is really responsive for rapid tonguing with such a gentle mpc facing. So lots of air goes through the large bore horn with that baffle, throat, and reed on the mpc. I mean, a lot! Nobody can stand up to me outdoors unless they play the trumpet. Let us have a contest on just this feature. Ok? or just tonguing then. In jazz it is good to be able to hit notes hard like a sax and to fly over every body else in the band with dark high notes over the bright sounding instruments accompanying.
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Author: Dan Shusta
Date: 2006-06-17 16:31
Hi everyone,
If you would like to "see" what the air column actually looks like inside the clarinet, click on the following and scroll down to the section "open-open and open-closed tubes" and click on the word "animation" that is underlined. I found it to be interesting.
http://cnx.org/content/m12589/latest/
Please note: it appears that this site has some problems and you may have to click on the initial site and the word "animation" several times before you get to see the actual air movement animated picture.
Post Edited (2006-06-17 16:36)
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Author: ned
Date: 2006-06-18 02:02
An interesting site - I have bookmarked it for later investigation.
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Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2006-06-19 19:06
I am a bit surprised you're having such good results with a #2 reed. Have you tried a Vandoren V-12 2 1/2? You might get even more volume.
Impressive experimentation.
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Author: Ken Mills
Date: 2006-06-19 20:39
Hello Brenda, Sure I have tried the V12 no. 2 1/2 reed, but they are too hard unless maybe you use the 1.18mm facing on the Selmer CP100. You do not have to worry about the ordinary no. 2 closing up on my Selmer, but the high altissimo notes will not be, well, you know. Forget about the b and c on top, but the b-flat is ok, while I find g is a good dependable high limit. Cecil, my piano player is happy this way at the piano bar without amplification. Good enough for jazz. Ken
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