Nicolas KinNick K’s Engineering & Music BlogPrinted Clarinet Usage: Marching BandTomorrow, I will bring a bunch of my Barrel 1 designs to tomorrow’s UNLV football game against San Jose State University. This will be a…Nov 23, 20191Nov 23, 20191
Nicolas KinNick K’s Engineering & Music BlogClarinet Construction: Complications, Part 1When I began this project, I thought that I could just have a friend who was vastly better than me just play test every single part each…Nov 23, 2019Nov 23, 2019
Nicolas KClarinet Construction: Barrels, Part 7Midterms have been residing in the shadows for the last few weeks, preparing their attacks to cause the most damage to students’ GPA’s for…Nov 4, 2019Nov 4, 2019
Nicolas KinNick K’s Engineering & Music BlogClarinet Construction: Barrels, Part 6Today I was able to have one of the best clarinetists I know, a clarinetist named Jay, play test some of my barrels. Specifically, he…Oct 26, 20192Oct 26, 20192
Nicolas KinNick K’s Engineering & Music BlogClarinet Construction: Barrels, Part 5Today, we had a massive breakthrough! We printed out one of our “finalized” designs for the body of the clarinet barrels (which requires a…Oct 19, 20192Oct 19, 20192
Nicolas KinNick K’s Engineering & Music BlogClarinet Construction: Barrels, Part 4After a few weeks of 3D printing new barrels with “correct” measurements (“correct” measurements being defined as measurements that are…Oct 12, 2019Oct 12, 2019
Nicolas KinNick K’s Engineering & Music BlogClarinet Constructing: Barrels, Part 3Another week passes, more barrels have been printed, and more frustration ensues.Oct 5, 20191Oct 5, 20191
Nicolas KinNick K’s Engineering & Music BlogOn the Sound and Design of Wind InstrumentsWind instruments have such an incredibly broad spectrum of sounds, and I think that’s what makes them extremely appealing to me. A…Sep 28, 2019Sep 28, 2019
Nicolas KinNick K’s Engineering & Music BlogConstructing Clarinets: Barrels, Part 2When designing anything, it typically helps to think about how even basic things may go wrong.Sep 20, 20194Sep 20, 20194
Nicolas KinNick K’s Engineering & Music BlogClarinet Construction: Barrels, Part 1The clarinet is known for its incredibly beautiful sound quality. Brahms himself said that “no instrument adapts itself so closely to the…Sep 13, 20192Sep 13, 20192
