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2005-03-30

From: "Oscar Wehmanen"
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 05:19:05 GMT
Subject: [CB] Holes

The Chinese end blown flute has 4 'extra' holes near the end.

The Acoustic purpose is to make an impedence match with the free air.

That is what a bell does.  It takes a small tube and efficently attaches it to the room.  Take the bell off of a tuba and click into the moutpiece.  You can hear a series of clicks because the click cannot get out of the tube efficently.  With the bell, only one click.

An exponential horn has no natural resonance.  It does not reflect sound waves like a tube ending abruptly.
 

Oscar
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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:51:44 -0600
From: "Gregg Bailey"
Subject: [CB] Leblanc contra finishes--black vs. not

  1. Does anyone know if the Leblanc contrabass clarinets are still available in the regular shiny silver finish, or are they only available with the black finish now? 
  2. Does anyone know why they switched to the black finish? 
  3. Does anyone know why the neck and bell aren't black while the rest of the instrument is?
  4. On the Leblanc site (www.gleblanc.com), both models of contra-altos are pictured to still have the original silver-colored bodies, while the BBb contrabasses show the black finish.  Are they only putting the black finish on the BBb's???

-Gregg


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From: "Sung Hwang Wang"
Subject: [CB] Contrabass in Vancouver
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:17:25 -0800

Hello,

Are there any contrabass clarinet players in the Vancouver area, BC, Canada?  I would like to network, and maybe get together to play, etc.

Please contact me: bassethornmusic@hotmail.com

Willy

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