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Re: Clarinet above perpendicular?

Author: mnhnhyouh
Date: 2014-08-21 06:19

A brass instrument changes pitch by making the brass tube longer or shorter (the keys make the air travel through different length bits of pipe) and then it all comes out the bell.

A clarinet and other woodwind instruments make change the pitch by making the tube longer or shorter by opening holes along the length of the tube, and lots of the sound comes out of there. This is why a microphone below the bell of a clarinet mostly picks up the bass notes, as when all the keys are closed the sound has to escape from the bell alone.

However when higher holes are uncovered much of the sound comes out of the higher holes. If you mean higher C with all the front holes uncovered and the register key open then not that much sound comes out the bell.

Try it with a friend playing high C and move your ear around the clarinet. Then try it with a low E.

Maybe you could do it with a middle C as well, and with that a fair bit of sound should come out of the bell... so you could play that instead?

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Post Edited (2014-08-21 06:27)

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