Klarinet Archive - Posting 000726.txt from 1998/02

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: saxophone
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:49:48 -0500

That's what the tarogato is like now -- in Sax's time it was a double
reed instrument.
Roger Shilcock

On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, avrahm galper wrote:

> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 09:14:18 -0500
> From: avrahm galper <agalper@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: saxophone
>
> I believe the advent of the saxophone came about from Sax's wish to make
> an octave sounding clarinet. Or just plain expermenting with a cone for
> a body with a clarinet mouthpiece.
>
> A Hungarian instrument,the Taragotta, that existed for years, is a
> wooden conical bore instrument with a clarinet mouthpiece.
>
> Avrahm Galper
>
>
>
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