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Author: farabout
Date: 2021-09-27 20:41
Has anyone investigated how differently profiled metal rings (eg, ridged vs. plain) influence the tone timbre?
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Author: jdbassplayer
Date: 2021-09-27 21:48
Absolutely no noticeable difference, it’s only cosmetic. There may be a very very slight difference between an instrument with metal rings and one with no rings whatsoever, but even that is debatable.
-Jdbassplayer
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Author: Hurstfarm
Date: 2021-09-27 22:51
And impossible to verify anyway. Every other aspect of two compared instruments would have to be exactly the same.
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Author: donald
Date: 2021-09-28 07:25
I painted the rings on my A clarinet black with a sharpie pen, but told people it was some new black graphite rings that were all the rage in USA. Playing in dress rehearsal for a concert, one friend in the Violin section told me it made my sound more vibrant. A friend in the Cello section told me backstage that the sound was richer. Sharpie pen, I strongly recommend it, much cheaper than retro fitted rings.
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Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2021-09-28 10:44
Hi Donald,
That's hilarious. :-) I had a similar blind test experience when I was testing reeds yesterday. At one point I'd changed reeds so many times that I forgot which one I had on the clarinet, and did a blind test of a Vandorn classic 1.5, which I thought was a synthetic reed. It was so funny because I was thinking "Wow! This is the perfect synthetic reed! I finally found it!". It turned out that is was not. LOL!
Jen
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