Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/08/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 at >> N04/20318923483/in/dateposted-public/> >> >> Clarinet paraphernalia: >> < >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at >> N04/20913701886/in/dateposted-public/> >> >> >> Leica MM (v.1) and 50/1.5 Nokton. >> >> --Peter >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >