Klarinet Archive - Posting 000594.txt from 1998/02

From: garylsmith@-----.com (Gary L Smith)
Subj: Re: Low registers: Sax and oboe vs. clarinet
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 16:00:44 -0500

On Sun, 15 Feb 1998 12:13:49 -0500 ROBERT HOWE <arehow@-----.net>
writes:

>First, I disagree with your approach to Saxophone, better to treat
>Saxophone as a unique instrument than as a modification of clarinet.
>But this aside, your question is subtle and profound, Saxophone is
>really much closer to oboe in its behavior than to clarinet. The
>accident of the Saxophone using a single reed causes the confusion.

Thanks for the reply. I do not teach saxophone that way; I was talking
about how I initially "learned" saxophone. Very "ad hoc," if that's the
word I want. Opening came up in my high school stage band, my
sister-in-law had a tenor I could borrow, and off I went. Not to be
recommended.