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[edit] Clarinet manufacturers

That's much clearer than the way I had it initially (hiding the Conn-Selmer info). Thanks! --SarekOfVulcan 04:00, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Plastic bass clarinets

I'll defer to you on this one. I've never performed with a bass clarinetist who used a plastic instrument and in fact never knew they were made of plastic. You'd better fix it the way you know it because I get the impression you play these instruments. I'm an oboe/english horn guy! BTW if you want to post on a User talk page just go to that user's page and click the "discussion" tab up top. Then sign with 4 tildes. Nice talking with you. Badagnani 06:22, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clarinet makers

Good job on creating the Clarinet makers page. Bcem2 21:10, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] William Kempe

I noticed your additions to the article on William Kempe and was wondering if you have a source for the dating controversy, as I'd love to add it to the text. Cheers, Ziggurat 02:17, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the prod, I had that information in an old email since lost; I've now asked for the information again and will be updating the page. - Rsholmes 12:48, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
Aha! Thanks, I shall go update one or two pages that reference the date. Good addition! Ziggurat 20:28, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Contrabass clarinet

Do you have a source for the information you added to Contrabass clarinet? I don't doubt it's true, but there's nothing about clarinets on Eppelsheim's web page, and I'm not sure if his new design is notable enough for inclusion in any case. Powers 17:36, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Acoustic Resonance

Hey thanks for helping me last time with my questions on Acoustic Resonance. I have some more questions and wondered if you could answer them. I plan to build an open wind instrument myself. Is it possible to take a note, say A=440hz, and plug it into the equation f = {nv \over 2L} to find the length of the tube? If so, how do I use "n" in that context.

Thanks 69.167.148.176 22:30, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Look further down on the acoustic resonance article: Resonance of a tube of air.
For an open cylindrical or conical wind instrument you have f = {nv \over 2L} with n = 1 for the lowest notes, n = 2 for the notes in the higher register you get by overblowing, n = 3 for the next register above that, in the ideal case. In practice a real instrument is not exactly an ideal cylinder or cone. For one thing L is the effective length of the tube, and is only approximately equal to the actual length. You can try to work with more complex models of real-world instruments but these will still be approximations; fine tuning will still be pretty much a matter of trial and error. So, for instance, if you were building a transverse flute from PVC pipe, you might use the formula to estimate L -- then cut a piece of PVC longer than that. Longer partly because you need to add the length from the closed of the flute to the embouchure hole, and partly because it's easier to make a long tube short than to make a short tube long! Drill the embouchure hole, then blow on it and see what note you get. Hopefully it's flat. Then you can start shortening the tube until it's the right pitch.
Then there's the matter of drilling tone holes. Again, there are formulas you can work from, but it's best to take those as a guide and drill the holes too small initially -- one at a time, starting from the bottom. Again, drill them too small because it's easier to open up a too small hole than to close up a too big one. Tune one hole at a time, then go on to the next higher one.
And then you probably have to go back and re-tune, because the effect of the closed holes above an open hole is to lower the pitch, so you may have to shorten the tube some more and open up each hole some more.
Google for homemade flutes, you'll find some good information.
Actually I've never made a flute; I made a clarinet once, same general principle. I was working from a spreadsheet and kept getting notes sharper than expected -- the holes needed to be much smaller than what I calculated. Probably something wrong with my spreadsheet. -- Rsholmes 02:31, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Morris Dance link deletion

The user had few contributions and was adding external links to multiple articles. it is a behaviour pattern that tends to worry me.Geni 11:25, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

experence suggests that most of the time it is an extreamly good criteria but in this case I've put the links back. Which morris side are you with?Geni 12:18, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] None are

Hi, thanks for your detailed interrogation of this. The way I'd learned it, "none are" (in reference to number rather than quantity) would always be wrong, because "none" is a contraction of "not one." So that is completely new to me! Do you think the source is a good one? Badagnani 17:44, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback

I've noticed a bunch of people doing this, so I decided I'd mention it when I saw it. Rollback is really for outright vandalism and clear tests. When someone is clearly trying to contribute to the encyclopedia, it is polite to revert them with an explanatory edit summary, not to simply use the rollback button. Thanks, Mak (talk) 15:52, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clarinet template

Well, that's cool (comprehensive and useful), but it doesn't mean you should remove the clarinet category from the article, does it? --Herald Alberich 00:38, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD

Hello Rsholmes. You may be interested in this. Cheers, Fang Aili talk 19:45, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: External link deletion, such a long list is completely useless IMO, as well as way outside Wiki guidelines. You're welcome about the heads up. :) --Fang Aili talk 20:22, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Howdy. See Wikipedia:External links. --Fang Aili talk 21:20, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks-

I really need to jot down how to use those tools (ref, cite, etc. ... they were introduced to Wikipedia "after I came in" as it were, I believe, but they really do make pages look cleaner and easier to use for someone who both needs information and later wants to know where it's from, and that's very much the point - imhonesto... ), it's not as though the documentation is hidden... something I shall put on my user page for quick reference then I think. Schissel | Sound the Note! 21:06, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Clarinet thanks!

Thanks for the comments on the various clarinet articles, esp. piccolo clarinet. --Myke Cuthbert 03:32, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Single reed template

I've got to hand it to you for the single reed template, very nice. Badagnani 09:59, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Syracuse, New York

I noticed one of your edits on the Syracuse history page:

Revision as of 09:29, 1 March 2007 (edit) (undo) Rsholmes (Talk | contribs) (rv garbage to revision 110766674 dated 2007-02-25 05:47:58 by Dalmatian Mommy using popups)

Just wondering... Could you please tell me why my name is mentioned here? That's not even my edit.--Dalmatian Mommy 07:46, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for replying. I stand corrected on the SU mention--consider it a misprint. I'm kinda new here and I couldn't quite figure that out. That part of the piece didn't even look familiar to me. I haven't quite learned how to go back a few generations. And where can I find info on "using popups"?--Dalmatian Mommy 15:42, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hyperbass flute

Good job in uncovering information about the hyperbass flute. It's funny that we have to scrounge to find information about it when Fabbriciani could just tell us about it. But I guess his job is to keep busy playing music and our job is to figure out what he's doing! I got to see Matthias Ziegler playing some huge flutes in Columbus, Ohio a year or two ago and it was great--he has even installed mylar membranes that serves as an acoustic "distortion pedal." Badagnani 00:59, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tubax

Hi, see discussion at Subcontrabass saxophone for Jay C. Easton's thoughts about whether the Tubax is a saxophone. I hope you'll read it through and give your thoughts. His comments are very insightful and I think have a lot of validity. Badagnani 01:03, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Clarion/clarino

I've always known the second register of the clarinet to be called the "clarion" register, although I've seen "clarino" in print a few times. David Pino's book indicates that it is indeed "clarion", sometimes mistakenly called "clarino". I just thought it should be consistent in the Clarinet article. Thoughts? - Special-T 19:02, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Sounds good. Clarion/clarino, potayto/potahto, nuclear/nukular. - Special-T 19:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Transposing Instruments

I thought I'd comment on your changes to transposing instruments.

First, it looks like we were both going for consistent capitalization in the list of intruments by capitalization, but we have different opinions about how it should be done.

   ** E♭ soprano clarinet
   ** Sopranino saxophone

Do these match or not? To my mind, prefixing the key (which is of course capitalized) doesn't count, and if "Sopranino" is capitalized then "soprano" should be also. I don't feel strongly in this regard though, so I'll leave things as is. (Another possibility is to lower-case everything except the keys and proper nouns.)

Second, there is the problem of what to do about rare instruments. Bb octocontrabass clarinet and Eb octocontra-also clarinet are both on the list, even though only one of each has ever been made in the history of the world. Those two aren't just "rare," they are unique. Still they exist, they are fun, I think they belong on the list. But doesn't that mean other rare instruments should be on the list too?

    • C-soprano sax. You commented this out, but hundreds or thousands of these things exist. I have seen one. The saxophone article even has a brief section devoted to them. (It starts, "Also in the early 20th century, the C soprano (pitched a whole step above the B♭ soprano) was marketed to those....")
    • F-baritone sax: Maybe this deserved to be commented out, as only prototypes were made. There were more of them that the octo clarinets, though.
    • C-bass sax: This is the first saxophone that Sax demonstrated to the public in 1841. It definitely existed, though that may have been the only one ever made. What do you think?

Tuc 17:21, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

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