I was absolutely able to tell the difference, but I had them completely swapped! I pegged the wooden one as metal, and the metal as wood, which really amazes me because I've played the clarinet for over twenty-five years. O.o;;
Wow!!!! That's like the ultimate testament to how similar they sound. I had a hard time telling them apart too in post. Keep up the awesome clarinet-ing!
Same happened to me. The difference vs. your comment is that I am a bansuri flute player and had never ever thought of clarinets I just purchased a hand made all wood "wooden" clarinet.
As a clarinet player myself, I honestly couldn’t tell the difference at all. I was expecting a more brass instrument-like sound, but I was surprised by how much it sounded like a normal clarinet. I’ve only been playing the clarinet for 5 or 5 1/2 years, so there’s actually still a lot I don’t know when it comes to the instrument. I definitely have to work on audiation, as well as being able to play altissimo range better. I didn’t even know completely metal clarinets existed, so thank you for exposing me to this
For sure! That's actually why I made the video because they sounded a lot more similar than I was expecting too when I finally got my hands on a metal one.
Me and my perfectly trained ears: 1. A clarinet 2. That's a clarinet 3. Definitely a clarinet 4. A clarinet 5. A guy playing a clarinet 6. Maybe... A clarinet? That's what I call a perfect score u.u (Jokes aside, I like this format! And after your explanation, *maybe* I was even able to perceive the difference in sounds. However, just in case you wanted to replicate a similar video with other instruments, a quick, optional demo of the two before the actual game would be higly appreciated. In this way, even uneducated people like me could still play the game according to what they had the heartwarming illusion to grasp from the brief introduction).
Haha yes I love your responses!! 😂 Definitely a good idea! The reason I didn't do it before was I wanted to hammer the point home that they sound pretty damn similar. Which even I found surprising because they LOOK so different. I may do another one of these with my wood and metal flutes
I got it right on all of them but only because I suspected the metal clarinet sounded more resistant due to not sealing well. I play on hard rubber clarinets. I’ve learned a long time ago that the material matters little compared to the design.
The metal clarinet is pretty awesome but I think I prefer the sound of the wood clarinet better. Watching your clarinet vids has made me want to pick up playing clarinet again!
That's quite interesting. Could hear the difference especially the timbre near the throat notes, the metal clarinet tends to be a little blaring around the throat notes. I find that over all intonation is much better on the wooden one. It's less distinct between the 2 in the lower register notes.
I got it! One sounded more airy to me & I guessed that it was the metal one. Did I really know? no. lol. I'm quite impressed on the sound & quality of the metal clarinet.
I just came into possession of a really old Gretch Pathfinder metal clarinet. If the serial records are to be believed then that Gretsch was made in 1898. It’s sat in a junk yard for a lot of years, the silver plating is heavily tarnished and in some places completely worn through. It’s going to take a lot of time to fix but these instruments are so cool that I feel I have to fix it
Good job, To be a true, accurate comparison test (especially conducted blind), all sample sound bytes should (at the very least) played in the same register and preferably the same passage and dynamics and articulations.
When I was in the 6th grade in Wisconsin I was a clarinet player. Our school used 2 piece aluminum clarinets. My parents then got divorced and I went with mom and we moved all the way to Texas. I went to band in the 7th grade and was issued a wooden instrument. It was a beautiful thing but for some reason I couldn’t play the darn thing! I sat in the last chair for the whole semester. Me and the music teacher worked together after school and I just couldn’t get the embouchure right with the wooden instrument. So I quit the band and became a jock. I did love the wooden instrument though.
Me and my perfectly trained ears: 1. A clarinet 2. That's a clarinet 3. Definitely a clarinet 4. A clarinet 5. A guy playing a clarinet 6. Maybe... A clarinet? That's what I call a perfect score u.u
Nailed it! I prefer the wood on soprano clarinets, much darker tone. Now, on contrabass clarinet I prefer metal and actually really dislike the sound of the model 41. I'd take a paperclip over it any day. I feel like the brighter sound really makes it a little more punchy in a group.
Thank you for making this, I've been thinking of ways to make a fully metal ensemble sound still using woodwinds and strings and this provided a lot of insight. Soon enough I'll get my own metal clarinet Though I'm a brass player so idk how well I'll be at playing it lol
Easy. I think it would be harder to tell ebonite vs wood but metal has a more focused, but less resonant and warm tone, especially with more pronounced overtones. It's not a huge difference in the recording but enough to tell.
Just got one for Christmas lol. I haven’t brought it to the shop yet and also don’t have any reeds cause I currently haven’t had any reed instruments prior. But I’m excited to learn how to play it
I noticed soon that one was projecting less. As a (n amateur) singer, I'm trained to assess projection as I am supposed to have as much as possible. Then, remembering how the xylophone and the vibraphone sound, I pegged 2 and 5 correctly to the wooden one. Number three I wasn't sure. All in all, I deem myself satisfied.
Ah you've got it precisely! The tone is generally similar to clarinet (the point that I wanted to get across is that metal clarinet =/= soprano saxophone). But the metal clarinet tone is brighter and doesn't project as well. Thanks for watching!
I love the sound of the wooden clarinet and I've noticed that the metal clarinet seemed to have a mix of between sax and clarinet sound. I know this because I do play the Clarinet and also sax not the tenor but the one smaller then a tenor sax.
The metal clarinet sounds like it might do better with a different reed and/or mouthpiece. Still, it has a very interesting, mellow sound despite being metal. Curious what metal it is actually made of to have such low resonance.
I could tell them apart, but that’s probably also because I have a metal clarinet and have played them before. The stencils are OK but not spectacular as long as they are in good repair, but if you actually have a good professionally made one, they actually can be just as good or better than a wood, especially if you’re in marching band they are great since they are not as subject to pitch changes from the weather and such. My HN white easily compares to my Leblanc imo.
As an owner of a Selmer Paris (1929) metal clarinet, I got them all wrong except the last one! I'd like to think it's because I watched this video on my android phone...
I didn't recognize just n. 4 correctly 😀. Good result I think! Wooden clarinet suits me more 🙋. I like you are still so playful! (In all meanings of that word😁).
i am surprise to hear the metal clarinet as a wooden one. You must have a good round tone to make it sound so smooth. i got the first wrong which is annoying, for i have been playing the clarinet for 5 years now .:)
In my 1920s jazz orchestra the sax players double on clarinets. When they pick them up after a break, they are always low. Even in recordings be the best orchestras from the period, you hear clarinets that are too low. Could I avoid this problem by switching to metal clarinets?
In my orchestration class and compare the sound of metal clarinet to soprano saxophone. Then I explain to them it is actually the difference between cylindrical and conical, and the material it is made out of makes zero difference.
Partially right! Cylindrical vs conical does determine the type of sound but material has a huge impact on timbre and quality of that sound. Which is why clarinets can cost between $60 and $60,000+ 😂
Great to hear! I'd recommend LeBlanc, Yamaha, or Selmer. They have great cheap student instruments and usually you can find them used on Craigslist for $100 - $150 USD
This is such a fun video! I only got 2 correct- it seems you make the metal clarinet sound more like wood? What reeds do you use? Thank You for sharing:)
1.metal 2.metal 3.madera 4.madera 5.metal. 6.metal He fallado, no soy digno. El 2 y 5 pensé que era metal por la brillantez del sonido , aunque con el 2 si dude bastante el 5 estaba casi seguro que era metal
I had them mixed up several times and I thought one sounded both better and worse than the other during the different passages. Specifically I preferred 1, 3, 4 and 5. So basically I can't tell the difference.
The other day I had a thought. "Would a metal clarinet just basically be a saxophone." I kept this thought to my self but the algorithms telepathy lead me here.
I was so able to tell the differance. I can see why metal clarinets are not popular in a way, it is so much weaker sounding than the wooden ones. I have not seen many double walled metal clarinets but I know they are better. But still thats a nice metal clarinet compared to mine which is basicly just parts now.
Lmaoo I was wrong on all of them haha. Btw, I think the metal one would sound great in a jazzy group (like with tubas, trombones, and other metal instruments. But the wooden one for literally EVERYTHING else lmao. That's my opinion tho :3 Great video!!
Thanks for playing EZ! Yeah I agree with you on that. I think the metal works great for a jazz group or some kind of blending element but for anything solo I'd probably stick with the wooden one.
So i think the difference is metal gets a cleaner sound, like a tuning fork, while wood seems to have more of a mix of frequencies. It seemed to work as a method to guess
1 metal 2 wood 3 wood 4 wood 5 wood 6 ????? I think I had the 1st 3 right but I was not sure about the last 3 do but yeah I did my best shot no cheating just like you said luke but hey I did have a little fun with it not much to say thay don’t Sound any that different to me any way I was just testing my self to just playing that game anyway good video that was cool!
There is a difference but its not extremely obvious: perhaps if you didnt pay attention (if it wasnt a test) you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. So what confuses me now is what makes a saxophone and clarinet sound very different. I play the sax and the metal clarinet sounds really different from a sax: both are metal tubes with single reed nonmetal mouthpieces. I mean a sax is a conic tube and clarinet is a straight tube but why would that make such a big difference.
It’s very nice when people play the same phrases on two different instruments in terms to sense the subtle differences. The way you did it doesn’t deliver that.
I didn't play the game because I came to this URL for a different purpose, I'm researching speaker design. The URL I visited prior to this one dealt with organ pipe design ( www.quora.com/Does-the-frequency-of-sound-produced-by-an-organ-pipe-change-with-its-diameter ). Two facts about organ pipes: 1. They can be made of either wood or metal. 2. "The ratio between the length and the diameter is the main factor determining the “color” of the sound, i.e. the intensity of overtones." I was interested in the comment that the metal clarinet had a "brighter tone" and "weaker sound" compared to the wood. Based on this comment I would guess the diameter of the instrument bore of the metal instrument would be less than the bore of the wood instrument. It's impossible to compare bore size from the video. Is my "guess" is correct?
Good postulation! Sadly I can't measure the bore size but that could be the case. It also could be that the metal clarinet doesn't seal as well and therefore can't resonate as fully in the lower register
@@InstrumentManiac Thanks for your comment. I did a bit more research. Seems the answer is quite straight forward. The Q factor for metal is higher than the Q factor for wood. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_factor#Acoustical_systems
Actual clarinet and saxophone are completely different! The clarinet is a cylindrical bore instrument and overblows a 12th. The soprano sax is a conical bore and overblows an octave. Also the way the mouthpiece is cut channels the air differently when vibrating the reed. All these differences are what make the sound unique between the two :)
1. Wood (wrong dang) 2. Wood (LETS GO) 3. Metal? (Nope, got that one wrong) 4. Metal (yep) 5. Metal (not quite) 6. Wood (nope :/) I had to guess on a bunch.. (I went back through and put if I got the answers correct or not in brackets)
I was absolutely able to tell the difference, but I had them completely swapped! I pegged the wooden one as metal, and the metal as wood, which really amazes me because I've played the clarinet for over twenty-five years. O.o;;
Wow!!!! That's like the ultimate testament to how similar they sound. I had a hard time telling them apart too in post. Keep up the awesome clarinet-ing!
Same happened to me. The difference vs. your comment is that I am a bansuri flute player and had never ever thought of clarinets I just purchased a hand made all wood "wooden" clarinet.
I thought that was wood but it was metal and vice versa !
same here!
Me too. The metal instrument sounded mellower, so I presumed it was the wooden one.
As a clarinet player myself, I honestly couldn’t tell the difference at all. I was expecting a more brass instrument-like sound, but I was surprised by how much it sounded like a normal clarinet. I’ve only been playing the clarinet for 5 or 5 1/2 years, so there’s actually still a lot I don’t know when it comes to the instrument. I definitely have to work on audiation, as well as being able to play altissimo range better. I didn’t even know completely metal clarinets existed, so thank you for exposing me to this
For sure! That's actually why I made the video because they sounded a lot more similar than I was expecting too when I finally got my hands on a metal one.
I imagine there would be a difference if the mouthpiece was also made of metal.
Me and my perfectly trained ears:
1. A clarinet
2. That's a clarinet
3. Definitely a clarinet
4. A clarinet
5. A guy playing a clarinet
6. Maybe... A clarinet?
That's what I call a perfect score u.u
(Jokes aside, I like this format! And after your explanation, *maybe* I was even able to perceive the difference in sounds.
However, just in case you wanted to replicate a similar video with other instruments, a quick, optional demo of the two before the actual game would be higly appreciated. In this way, even uneducated people like me could still play the game according to what they had the heartwarming illusion to grasp from the brief introduction).
Haha yes I love your responses!! 😂
Definitely a good idea! The reason I didn't do it before was I wanted to hammer the point home that they sound pretty damn similar. Which even I found surprising because they LOOK so different. I may do another one of these with my wood and metal flutes
I got it right on all of them but only because I suspected the metal clarinet sounded more resistant due to not sealing well. I play on hard rubber clarinets. I’ve learned a long time ago that the material matters little compared to the design.
True! Old pads and limited repair-ability are what really dooms the instrument.
It's more of a fun toy than anything else 😂
The metal clarinet is pretty awesome but I think I prefer the sound of the wood clarinet better. Watching your clarinet vids has made me want to pick up playing clarinet again!
Ah so happy to hear this! ^_^
I don't think the difference is that strong, but I definitely do feel as though the wooden clarinet has a richer, fuller sound.
I fully agree with all you've written! Thanks for playing 😊
and sweeter
I imagine there would be a difference if the mouthpiece was also made of metal.
Yes, both sounded great and I thought the same thing!!!
I loved the low tones on the metal one!
I’m like 90% sure I hear that 4th one every time I’m at Disneyland in line for the Matterhorn
That's quite interesting. Could hear the difference especially the timbre near the throat notes, the metal clarinet tends to be a little blaring around the throat notes. I find that over all intonation is much better on the wooden one. It's less distinct between the 2 in the lower register notes.
I actually think the metal clarinet sounds considerably better than plastic
I got it! One sounded more airy to me & I guessed that it was the metal one. Did I really know? no. lol. I'm quite impressed on the sound & quality of the metal clarinet.
Ah good ear! Yeah I was surprised by how good the sound was too ^_^
OMG I CAN BELIEVE YOU'RE PLAYING YOSHIS ISLAND MUSIC! That was one of the first songs I learnt on clarinet rofl
Haha nice! This is another song from Yoshi we did on clarinet: ua-cam.com/video/DlQZjGBBWPQ/v-deo.html&ab_channel=InstrumentManiac
On my phone speaker I could hardly hear a difference. Was expecting the metal clarinet to sound a lot more like a soprano sax.
Nice video length B^)
Right!? When I bought it I was stunned how... normal it sounds 😂
Yea I just noticed it’s 4:20.
Nice
I just came into possession of a really old Gretch Pathfinder metal clarinet. If the serial records are to be believed then that Gretsch was made in 1898. It’s sat in a junk yard for a lot of years, the silver plating is heavily tarnished and in some places completely worn through. It’s going to take a lot of time to fix but these instruments are so cool that I feel I have to fix it
Totally agree!
I love the metal clarinet ❤️ :) 💯💯 I missed #3
Awesome job! Right!? It looks like it's from the FUTURE
As a clarinet player. I got all of them wrong 😬🙃
MAMAAA MY TIME HAS COOOOOME
😂😂😂
Literally when putting this video together I even was getting some of them wrong... and I recorded the dang thing!
Exactly same
Cake the cat BRO I HAD TO PLAY BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY IN MY BAND
Swear!
Send shivers down my spine...
As I’m typing this, this video came out 4 years ago and I’m getting notified about it now 😭
Wow you have talent. Its beautiful. My daughter wanted to hear the difference. She loves playing. Thank you.
Thanks Hannah glad to hear!
I love the metal sounds..thank you
I thought a metal clarinet would just be a soprano sax, guess I need to learn how that works
Different mouthpiece, bore, and keys!
1. Metal
2. Wood
3. Wood (Route 1 XD)
4. Metal (I can't)
5. Metal (I can't again)
6. Wood (Pokemon Theme XD)
Dang it 4/6 :D
omg good job!!!!! tbh you did better than I did when I was editing this together and trying to guess which clip was which 😂
@@InstrumentManiac :D
Good job, To be a true, accurate comparison test (especially conducted blind), all sample sound bytes should (at the very least) played in the same register and preferably the same passage and dynamics and articulations.
When I was in the 6th grade in Wisconsin I was a clarinet player. Our school used 2 piece aluminum clarinets.
My parents then got divorced and I went with mom and we moved all the way to Texas. I went to band in the 7th grade and was issued a wooden instrument. It was a beautiful thing but for some reason I couldn’t play the darn thing! I sat in the last chair for the whole semester.
Me and the music teacher worked together after school and I just couldn’t get the embouchure right with the wooden instrument.
So I quit the band and became a jock. I did love the wooden instrument though.
Me and my perfectly trained ears:
1. A clarinet
2. That's a clarinet
3. Definitely a clarinet
4. A clarinet
5. A guy playing a clarinet
6. Maybe... A clarinet?
That's what I call a perfect score u.u
perfect score we stan!! 😂
Either you stole this from Marco Disarò
_or_ they edited their comment and stole yours. The former seems more likely.
That metal clarinet is tuned so sharp
Ah yeah it's very hard to control :/
BECAUSE it is a very small, straight bore, not a polycylindrical bore. Although, that Selmer might not be a true polybore either.
I love the Pokémon music. Random. Beautiful. Glorious
4&5 are from Parto Parto!
omg you clocked it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow you get like a billion gold stars for that I'm impressed!
Nailed it! I prefer the wood on soprano clarinets, much darker tone. Now, on contrabass clarinet I prefer metal and actually really dislike the sound of the model 41. I'd take a paperclip over it any day. I feel like the brighter sound really makes it a little more punchy in a group.
Thank you for making this, I've been thinking of ways to make a fully metal ensemble sound still using woodwinds and strings and this provided a lot of insight. Soon enough I'll get my own metal clarinet
Though I'm a brass player so idk how well I'll be at playing it lol
Good luck! Make sure you have a repair shop lined up because these traditionally need a lot of work to be playable 😄
Easy. I think it would be harder to tell ebonite vs wood but metal has a more focused, but less resonant and warm tone, especially with more pronounced overtones. It's not a huge difference in the recording but enough to tell.
I could definitely tell a difference. But I had them completely swapped!!
Just got one for Christmas lol. I haven’t brought it to the shop yet and also don’t have any reeds cause I currently haven’t had any reed instruments prior. But I’m excited to learn how to play it
Have fun!
I closed my eyes and could tell between the two. Played clarinet for 9 years.
Just came across this again. The metal sounded more naisely to me of that makes sense.
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one that plays Route 1 from Pokemon Red and Blue as a testing/tuning piece. lol
I noticed soon that one was projecting less. As a (n amateur) singer, I'm trained to assess projection as I am supposed to have as much as possible. Then, remembering how the xylophone and the vibraphone sound, I pegged 2 and 5 correctly to the wooden one. Number three I wasn't sure.
All in all, I deem myself satisfied.
Ah you've got it precisely! The tone is generally similar to clarinet (the point that I wanted to get across is that metal clarinet =/= soprano saxophone). But the metal clarinet tone is brighter and doesn't project as well. Thanks for watching!
WAIT YAY I GOT THEM ALL RIGHT I WASN'T EXPECTING THAT
I wish you would have gone over the break more on the metal, but very cool!
I love the sound of the wooden clarinet and I've noticed that the metal clarinet seemed to have a mix of between sax and clarinet sound. I know this because I do play the Clarinet and also sax not the tenor but the one smaller then a tenor sax.
1. clarinet
2. clarinet
3. clarinet
4. clarinet
5. clarinet (they low-key sound da same so i aint know)
Thanks for the video. Less difference than expected.
I wonder how clarinet sounds in Silver or 14K or 18K gold like flutes.
I guessed the metal clarinet would sound breathy. I got 100% on my guesses.
The metal clarinet sounds like it might do better with a different reed and/or mouthpiece. Still, it has a very interesting, mellow sound despite being metal. Curious what metal it is actually made of to have such low resonance.
I have both types of clarinet, so I got them all right!
I only got #5 wrong. I had a metal clarinet decades ago in middle school.
I could tell them apart, but that’s probably also because I have a metal clarinet and have played them before. The stencils are OK but not spectacular as long as they are in good repair, but if you actually have a good professionally made one, they actually can be just as good or better than a wood, especially if you’re in marching band they are great since they are not as subject to pitch changes from the weather and such. My HN white easily compares to my Leblanc imo.
Dang that metal one sounds way warmer than I thought!
As an owner of a Selmer Paris (1929) metal clarinet, I got them all wrong except the last one! I'd like to think it's because I watched this video on my android phone...
Wow that's old! Haha it may be the phone - it also could be how janky my metal clarinet is 😂
Clarinetomaton, I choose you!
I was wrong every time except for the last, and I've been playing one for 40+ years. Let's do curved vs straight soprano!
I love got all of them right, the metal clarinet is more of an airy sound
The metal has a better jazz sound in my opinion due to the difference in timbre. Maybe that’s me but I’d like to hear jazz on the metal clarinet
It does have a nice lighter tone!
I didn't recognize just n. 4 correctly 😀. Good result I think! Wooden clarinet suits me more 🙋. I like you are still so playful! (In all meanings of that word😁).
Thanks for playing along and glad you had fun! Yes I'm more a fan of the wood clarinet too for the sound (but the metal looks so dang cool!)
got 5/6 correct ... error with #4
I do not play clarinet, but dad did play throughout my childhood :)
i am surprise to hear the metal clarinet as a wooden one. You must have a good round tone to make it sound so smooth. i got the first wrong which is annoying, for i have been playing the clarinet for 5 years now .:)
Thanks MichRom! Haha I was even having trouble distinguishing them while editing the video so it's totally understandable 😂
In my 1920s jazz orchestra the sax players double on clarinets. When they pick them up after a break, they are always low. Even in recordings be the best orchestras from the period, you hear clarinets that are too low. Could I avoid this problem by switching to metal clarinets?
You might be able to! Although you'd probably be sacrificing quite a bit of tone for a bump in tuning
In my orchestration class and compare the sound of metal clarinet to soprano saxophone. Then I explain to them it is actually the difference between cylindrical and conical, and the material it is made out of makes zero difference.
Partially right! Cylindrical vs conical does determine the type of sound but material has a huge impact on timbre and quality of that sound. Which is why clarinets can cost between $60 and $60,000+ 😂
I'm interested in the weight difference please!! Is the metal one heavier or lighter than the wooden? By how much you think?
Hi. I will buy a clarinet for my daughter on next week. . What brand will u recommend to me. . Thank u 🇵🇭
Great to hear! I'd recommend LeBlanc, Yamaha, or Selmer. They have great cheap student instruments and usually you can find them used on Craigslist for $100 - $150 USD
The beginning
This is such a fun video! I only got 2 correct- it seems you make the metal clarinet sound more like wood? What reeds do you use? Thank You for sharing:)
Thanks Mia! I generally use Vandoren 3s, but depends on the mouthpiece and weather :)
1.metal
2.metal
3.madera
4.madera
5.metal.
6.metal
He fallado, no soy digno.
El 2 y 5 pensé que era metal por la brillantez del sonido , aunque con el 2 si dude bastante el 5 estaba casi seguro que era metal
I’m not sure if it was the instrument or the reed, but the metal clarinet definitely sounded airy in comparison to the wood.
The metal clarinet is like the flugelhorn of clarinets :-)
I had them mixed up several times and I thought one sounded both better and worse than the other during the different passages.
Specifically I preferred 1, 3, 4 and 5. So basically I can't tell the difference.
my dumbass thought he was gonna say “i’ll see you guys next wednesday with lizaaa..byeeeeeee” 3:56
😂😂😂
Me who plays trombone
“Wait there’s a difference?”
I actually like wood more gives it a warmer deeper sound.
What was the first song???? I liked it sooooooooooooo much
Ahh happy you enjoyed it! ^_^ It's my collab from last year:
ua-cam.com/video/7fxwKNJoTmA/v-deo.html
Link to the background music at the beginning?
The other day I had a thought. "Would a metal clarinet just basically be a saxophone."
I kept this thought to my self but the algorithms telepathy lead me here.
I was so able to tell the differance. I can see why metal clarinets are not popular in a way, it is so much weaker sounding than the wooden ones. I have not seen many double walled metal clarinets but I know they are better. But still thats a nice metal clarinet compared to mine which is basicly just parts now.
They're fun! But yeah not really functional when resin sounds better and is the same price
@@InstrumentManiac yeah definitely, There was that phase though where Instrument Makers thought it would work, but really was a fail.
Lmaoo I was wrong on all of them haha.
Btw, I think the metal one would sound great in a jazzy group (like with tubas, trombones, and other metal instruments. But the wooden one for literally EVERYTHING else lmao. That's my opinion tho :3
Great video!!
Thanks for playing EZ! Yeah I agree with you on that. I think the metal works great for a jazz group or some kind of blending element but for anything solo I'd probably stick with the wooden one.
So i think the difference is metal gets a cleaner sound, like a tuning fork, while wood seems to have more of a mix of frequencies. It seemed to work as a method to guess
Oh do I hear some Parto Parto? YES I DO!
The Broadway Biker has an EXCELLENT ear!
How about ebonite and abs plastic clarinet?
1 metal
2 wood
3 wood
4 wood
5 wood
6 ?????
I think I had the 1st 3 right but
I was not sure about the last 3 do but yeah I did my best shot no cheating just like you said luke but hey I did have a little fun with it not much to say thay don’t Sound any that different to me any way I was just testing my self to just playing that game anyway good video that was cool!
Good job!! Yeah it's actually pretty hard to tell the difference which I thought was kind of a cool conclusion. Hope you had fun playing!
There is a difference but its not extremely obvious: perhaps if you didnt pay attention (if it wasnt a test) you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. So what confuses me now is what makes a saxophone and clarinet sound very different. I play the sax and the metal clarinet sounds really different from a sax: both are metal tubes with single reed nonmetal mouthpieces. I mean a sax is a conic tube and clarinet is a straight tube but why would that make such a big difference.
It's the bore as well as the mouthpiece technique that work together to make the difference!
It’s very nice when people play the same phrases on two different instruments in terms to sense the subtle differences. The way you did it doesn’t deliver that.
I didn't play the game because I came to this URL for a different purpose, I'm researching speaker design. The URL I visited prior to this one dealt with organ pipe design ( www.quora.com/Does-the-frequency-of-sound-produced-by-an-organ-pipe-change-with-its-diameter ).
Two facts about organ pipes:
1. They can be made of either wood or metal.
2. "The ratio between the length and the diameter is the main factor determining the “color” of the sound, i.e. the intensity of overtones."
I was interested in the comment that the metal clarinet had a "brighter tone" and "weaker sound" compared to the wood.
Based on this comment I would guess the diameter of the instrument bore of the metal instrument would be less than the bore of the wood instrument.
It's impossible to compare bore size from the video. Is my "guess" is correct?
Good postulation! Sadly I can't measure the bore size but that could be the case. It also could be that the metal clarinet doesn't seal as well and therefore can't resonate as fully in the lower register
@@InstrumentManiac Thanks for your comment. I did a bit more research. Seems the answer is quite straight forward. The Q factor for metal is higher than the Q factor for wood. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_factor#Acoustical_systems
1:15Lincolnshire Posy?
Next up: Wood vs. Brass Saxophone
What song is # 4, it sounded great
A metal clarinet is just a saxophone
But the metal clarinet sounds more so clarinet than saxophone but still
Actual clarinet and saxophone are completely different! The clarinet is a cylindrical bore instrument and overblows a 12th. The soprano sax is a conical bore and overblows an octave. Also the way the mouthpiece is cut channels the air differently when vibrating the reed. All these differences are what make the sound unique between the two :)
How can people not tell I don't even play clarinet!
1. Wood (wrong dang)
2. Wood (LETS GO)
3. Metal? (Nope, got that one wrong)
4. Metal (yep)
5. Metal (not quite)
6. Wood (nope :/)
I had to guess on a bunch.. (I went back through and put if I got the answers correct or not in brackets)
Anybody know what the song for #3 is?
I honestly didn't hear a difference. Maybe if I put on some nice headphones.
Headphones definitely help! But it's pretty difficult to distinguish either way :)
Well, I got 4/6 right. But they sounded pretty similar to me!
It sounded as if the metal clarinet lacked the open G note and A… as in it sounded fairly flat or stale compared to the wooden one
what is the 4th piece please
and about a $2000 price difference
My wood clarinet was only 150 off craigslist 😅😅😅
i wouldnt recommend using 2.5 reed since the clarion and atissimo registers don't sound that good
We mixed them up as opposites💀
I could definitely tell. The metal one has a sharper and less smooth sound than the wood one.
1 WOOD 2Metal 3wood 4 wood 5metal 6wood
1. Wood
2. Metal
3. Wood
4. Wood
5. Metal
6. Metal
I had no idea tbh (?)
Yas queen good!! You should do this with wood and metal pianos 😂
🤘 METAL, METAL, METAL 🤘
what is the fourth song?
1. metal
2. wood
3. wood
4. metal
5. wood
6. metal
(OMFG I GOT THEM)
I only got 6 right. Everything else I flipped. Omg haha