Klarinet Archive - Posting 000179.txt from 1994/03

From: "Roger J. Shilcock" <mlfl@-----.UK>
Subj: Shakespeare, etc.
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 04:26:38 -0500

Dear Scott McC.,
(1) NO - the recorder was not the nearest thing to a clarinet; there was no
nearest thing to a clarinet, apart maybe from various folk instruments here and
there.
(2) It wasn't the early oboe which "honked", but its much chunkier predecessor,
generally known in English as the shawm. There are shawms in use to this day,
of two main types; the nearest thing to the Renaissance (and later)
European-type shawms are the tenora and tiple used in Catalan sardana music.
These have keywork these days. Their main characteristic is l-o-u-d-n-e-s-s.
Roger Shilcock