 The Clarinet BBoard
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-12-06 22:51
Just to add to what "TomS" just said:
Bells are much more INTEGRAL to the overall sound of the clarinet (with all due respect to the idea of "decoupling") than one might think without having had some practical experience of one NOT working right.
I had a bell crack on me, one minute it was just fine, the next it was cracked. Unless you've played on a cracked bell you wouldn't know just what a stark difference there is! The entire clarinet sounded more kazoo-like. There was much less resonance, particularly (and as one might expect) in the last half of the horn.
So what gives here? The geometry is the same. The material is the same. The only difference was that the bell was no longer a solid, resonant piece of wood, but it was now split only by a hairline crack that went from the flare almost completely to the socket.
I noted quickly (to try and appreciate this difference in other ways) that a healthy bell will have a "ping" to it when you strike it with a knuckle (holding as little of the socket part as you can). It sounds like a Marimba bar or a clave. The cracked bell, when stuck, sounded hollow and dead like any ordinary chunk of wood.
So not only the shape of the architecture is important, but also the integrity of the architecture is important.
There is a custom available to shoppers at custom clarinet builders in Germany and Austria where you can actually go to pick your own billets before fabrication by striking them in such a way as to hear this "ping." You then decide which billet you prefer based on the "ping" you prefer from the billet. Then the billets YOU chose become your clarinet.........I like this.
....................Paul Aviles
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tylerleecutts |
2014-12-05 09:31 |
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maxopf |
2014-12-05 10:03 |
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Paul Aviles |
2014-12-05 13:53 |
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Carmelo |
2014-12-05 18:43 |
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cxgreen48 |
2014-12-05 20:57 |
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sfalexi |
2014-12-05 21:20 |
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Hurstfarm |
2014-12-05 22:16 |
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WhitePlainsDave |
2014-12-05 23:14 |
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Paul Aviles |
2014-12-06 00:25 |
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Ed |
2014-12-06 01:49 |
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TomS |
2014-12-06 02:53 |
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chris moffatt |
2014-12-06 03:51 |
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sfalexi |
2014-12-06 04:04 |
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TomS |
2014-12-06 08:20 |
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WhitePlainsDave |
2014-12-06 08:25 |
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tylerleecutts |
2014-12-06 10:14 |
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Paul Aviles |
2014-12-06 13:55 |
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Ed |
2014-12-06 16:29 |
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sfalexi |
2014-12-06 20:58 |
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cxgreen48 |
2014-12-06 22:01 |
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TomS |
2014-12-06 22:32 |
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Paul Aviles |
2014-12-06 22:51 |
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tylerleecutts |
2014-12-07 00:40 |
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Bob Barnhart |
2014-12-07 00:46 |
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GLHopkins |
2014-12-07 01:17 |
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tylerleecutts |
2014-12-07 10:11 |
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TomS |
2014-12-07 20:34 |
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Jarmo Hyvakko |
2014-12-08 19:59 |
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AAAClarinet |
2014-12-08 21:02 |
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doctoxin |
2014-12-09 17:01 |
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tylerleecutts |
2014-12-10 08:24 |
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Paul Aviles |
2014-12-10 09:03 |
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JEG |
2014-12-11 21:15 |
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tylerleecutts |
2014-12-14 21:56 |
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tylerleecutts |
2014-12-15 09:06 |
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Paul Aviles |
2014-12-15 14:16 |
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tylerleecutts |
2014-12-15 20:14 |
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Paul Aviles |
2014-12-16 05:19 |
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tylerleecutts |
2014-12-16 09:00 |
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cxgreen48 |
2014-12-16 09:25 |
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tylerleecutts |
2014-12-16 19:42 |
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seabreeze |
2014-12-17 04:03 |
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cxgreen48 |
2014-12-17 04:36 |
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tylerleecutts |
2014-12-17 06:32 |
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Dan Shusta |
2014-12-18 00:54 |
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maxopf |
2014-12-18 01:38 |
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Dan Shusta |
2014-12-18 02:18 |
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gkern |
2014-12-18 02:29 |
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seabreeze |
2014-12-18 02:46 |
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tylerleecutts |
2014-12-18 02:48 |
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maxopf |
2014-12-18 06:12 |
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Dan Shusta |
2014-12-18 06:45 |
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seabreeze |
2014-12-18 23:31 |
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Dan Shusta |
2014-12-19 01:10 |
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Paul Aviles |
2014-12-19 07:07 |
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