Klarinet Archive - Posting 000517.txt from 1997/02

From: Frauke Nonnenmacher <fat.cat@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: single reed oboe?
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 08:27:05 -0500

On Fri 14 Feb 97 (14:45:49), burchard@-----.com wrote:
> Enquiring minds want to know. OK, as long as someone else started
> this thread, I'll ask if anyone ever heard of an oboe with clarinet-
> type keywork...therefore with clarinet fingering.

I don't think that's possible - as far as I know the oboe is an instrument that
does octave jumps when overblown, like most wind instruments. The Clarinet
jumps an octave and a fifth (or forth?) because of the speaker key, and I don't
see how an Oboe could be made to do the same...

Frauke

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