Klarinet Archive - Posting 000442.txt from 1998/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Articulated G#
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 23:35:50 -0400

At 03:46 PM 8/13/98 -0700, Kevin Fay wrote:
>Most of the alternate fingerings on clarinet result from the instrument
>overblowing on the 12th and not the octave--unnecessary on saxophone. I,
>too, would like it if there was a low B and/or Bb, though.
>
??? Saxophones DO have low B and Bb.

>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 . . .
>
That's what happens when, instead of one man designing it, it develops over
the years by committee, adding a key here or there as the need arose.
There is a so-called "military" system oboe, which, I believe, fingers much
like a clarinet, but it apparently did not catch on, except as a doubling
instrument.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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