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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