Klarinet Archive - Posting 000385.txt from 1998/08

From: "Dee Hays" <deerich@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Articulated G#
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 20:33:15 -0400

>A more interesting question is the oboe. Like the saxophone, it overblows
>on the octave. Why the heck is its key system so screwed up? Seems to me
>that it shouldn't be any more complicated than a soprano saxophone . . .
>
>kjf

Maybe because the oboe just kind of "grew like Topsie" rather than being
invented like the sax.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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