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Re: Playing a metal clarinet

Author: bmcgar ★2017
Date: 2013-02-08 05:00

I play a metal horn often, and it reacts just as any other material would (though slightly less or more depending on the material because of how it insulates the air in the bore).

Warmer = higher in pitch. Colder = lower in pitch.

Metal clarinets do change temperature more quickly than most other standard materials, though. They're great conductors of heat. (Do a search for "double walled" metal clarinets. One model had a tube to blow into to force warm air between the walls.)

Oh, and it's the temperature of the air in the bore that makes the pitch higher or lower, not the temperature of the clarinet itself.

B.

Post Edited (2013-02-08 05:47)

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