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Re: Venting height and pitch ?

Author: Chris P
Date: 2023-07-18 21:37

Lydian "I disagree. Too much register key venting can wreck the tone and make it airy and unstable. Too much venting on lower keys can raise the pitch. On sax it can also slow you down when your fingers have to travel farther. If you opened up every keycup a few inches, the pitch would be destroyed and it would basically be unplayable and impossible to regulate. So you can end up with a lamp if you go too far. There's a sweet spot in all cases."

A FEW INCHES? How the effing hell can you open up the venting on a sax, let alone any instrument by A FEW INCHES? That's a physical impossibility! I don't know of any sax where any of the keys would even open up by as much as half an inch at the very most, let alone a few inches.

Were talking FRACTIONS OF MILLIMETRES which ventings are typically measured in, not INCHES! As far as too much venting on the large lower joint toneholes on clarinets, there's a maximum venting where the notes will issue without any resistance and anything more than that isn't going to have any effect. And to think the plain LH3 tonehole (the D/A tonehole as D/A issues directly from it) as well as all the other tonehole chimneys aren't affected when the fingers are lifted too far from them. If you have a fully covered hole/plateaux clarinet, then you'll notice when there's not enough venting as things will be stuffy, as opposed by having sufficient or even excessive venting from the fingerplates.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

Post Edited (2023-07-18 21:49)

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