Klarinet Archive - Posting 000620.txt from 1997/02

From: "Scott D. Morrow" <SDM@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: single reed oboe?
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:10:53 -0500

> 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 suppose it might
>be single reed, but the person who mentioned this didn't specify.
>This person also was given to joshing me a bit, from time to time.
>It could be the musical equivilant of a jackalope, for all I know.
>Snipe hunting, anyone? (No, no...they don't really hunt snipe, they
>just raise them for the snipe oil, which is used on squeeky minks.)

I thought the singe-reed oboe with clarinet-type keywork was called an
"eefer"! :-)

-Scott

Scott D. Morrow
Department of Biochemistry
School of Hygiene and Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
(410) 955-3631

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