[Leica] IMG: My friend the clarinetist

[Peter Klein]

Jim: Different clarinet mouthpieces and barrels affect the sound quality.
They can emphasize or de-emphasize various harmonics in the spectrum. It's
part science, part alchemy and part magical thinking. There are also
different length barrels as well.  But in a clarinet, tuning is primarily
done by pulling the mouthpiece and/or barrel in and out of the body of the
instrument slightly. Bassoonists have a similar preoccupation with bocals
(aka crooks)--the curved silver tube that goes between the reed and the
instrument.  We do have different length crooks for tuning, because pulling
a bocal in and out of the instrument doesn't really work.  And we all
obsess about reeds. A lot.

--Peter

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
wrote:

> OK, Peter, you have really aroused my curiosity.  I can understand a bunch
> of reeds or reed blanks, and even an assortment of mouthpieces.  But nine
> barrels?  Are they in different lengths for tuning?
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
>
> On 8/27/2015 10:08 PM, Peter Klein wrote:
>
>> Laurie, talking to Carl:
>> <
>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/20318923483/in/dateposted-public/>
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>> Clarinet paraphernalia:
>> <
>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/20913701886/in/dateposted-public/>
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>>
>> Leica MM (v.1) and 50/1.5 Nokton.
>>
>> --Peter
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