Klarinet Archive - Posting 000062.txt from 1994/10

From: Alan Saul <saul+@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Keilworth straight alto (a Stritch in time...)
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 15:08:23 -0400

Jay Heiser noted, in regard to Rahsaan Roland Kirk and his instruments:

> Seems to me that there was an
>article in "Saxophone Journal" in the past few years about Kirk's horns.
>He had all kinds of specially modified stuff and as I remember the story,
>it has disappeared. He'd altered some of his horns so that he could
>play them one-handed (handy when you're playing 3 saxes at once).

Also when only one hand is operable, as was the case with Rahsaan after his
stroke. I heard him for the last time in 1976 at the Vanguard playing
several horns at once with half his body, and he was only slightly toned
down from his healthier days. Originally his modifications included means
of fingering multiple horns simultaneously.

He also used novel combinations of mouthpieces with bodies, and although I
can't recall what the combinations were with manzello and stritch, it seems
to me they didn't have standard sax mouthpieces, right?

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Alan Saul
saul+@-----.edu

   
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