Klarinet Archive - Posting 000748.txt from 1998/02

From: njs5@-----.uk (Nick Shackleton)
Subj: Re: ADOLPHE SAX
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 09:44:35 -0500

Be sure to look at the book by Wally Harwood (in English, a good read)
before deciding whether to translate Malou Haine's book.
Nick
>Interesting stuff!
>Est-ce qu'on a traduit ce livre en anglais?
>Roger Shilcock (who would rather like any money for such translations
>which might be available....)
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>On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, avrahm galper wrote:
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>> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 20:39:05 -0500
>> From: avrahm galper <agalper@-----.com>
>> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
>> To: klarinet@-----.us
>> Subject: ADOLPHE SAX
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>> Adolphe Sax
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>> The son of an instrument maker, Adolphe was also skilled clarinet player
>> who had the boldness to carry out his ideas of improving the clarinet.
>> He extended the range down to written D thus hoping to secure purer Bb
>> and A (throat).
>> With an additional speaker key, he was able to provide easier emission
>> and greater facility as far as high C'''' and even D and E beyond.
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>> Fortunately, in the book about Adolphe Sax that I have (in French which
>> I don't read) there are some pictures of the clarinets he made. But the
>> pictures ( not so clear), must have been taken from a catalogue of those
>> days.
>> However, one can see the extra speaker key.
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