Re: clarinets; was Re: Brass Instruments

["Bernard G. Cleyet & Nancy Ann Seese" <georgeann@REDSHIFT.COM>]

I finally spoke with the Head Funk --

much of what he said agreed with previous posts, however, one thing he said was
that the bell's material probably had some effect as he's seen a holographic
study of their vibration.  So it vibrates, reradiates, and absorbs.  Evidently
not much as, as reported, packing clay had no effect.  He did say that a wood
recorder had to be very good to be better than plastics, because the mold
development cost (shape, hole size and placement, etc.) was divided my all the
copies made.  He also said brasses were made by rolling sheet and soldering the
joint.  the joint then burnished until it was invisible.    much more but
duplicative.

bc



Leigh Palmer wrote:

> > Now, just don't get me started about reeds.
>
> Have you a personal supply of gold beater's skin? In my orchestra
> days (in high school) an oboeist in our orchestra made his reeds
> using this rather grotesquely named material.
>
> Instrumentalists are, in some ways, worse than audiophiles when
> it comes to superstition. The experiments to which I referred in
> a previous post are in the literature; they are not my experiments.
> (I did some on tympani which I did not publish, but Rossing did
> similar experiments later which he did publish, getting similar
> results to some of mine.) In the modeling clay experiment the bell
> of the instrument was covered with clay, of course.
>
> Leigh