Klarinet Archive - Posting 000729.txt from 1998/02

From: Ryan Lowe <ral@-----.net>
Subj: Re: saxophone
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 18:41:27 -0500

I could well be wrong, but didn't the sax come about because of the French
Horn? Sax wanted something that would project more, etc...

This is what I heard... any validity to it?

Ryan Lowe

At 09:14 AM 2/19/98 -0500, you wrote:
>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
>
>
>
>Clarinet Mouthpiece Tone Enhancers
>http://www.sneezy.org/avrahm_galper/index.html
>
>

   
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