Klarinet Archive - Posting 000263.txt from 1998/09

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Straight altos [was Re: [kl] C-straight soprano sax]
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 16:19:36 -0400

On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Mitch Bassman wrote:

> At 11:12 AM 9/8/1998 -0700, Grant Green wrote:

> >I haven't heard the straight altos and tenors, but I suspect they
> >have a slightly different timbre as compared with the normal curved
> >varieties.

> Very different timbre, Grant. I played a straight alto at a sax
> symposium about a year and a half ago. I wish I could remember which
> brand it was. Definitely not a Selmer. I believe it may have been a
> Keilworth. Anyway, my first reaction was that I was listening to someone
> else in the room playing an alto sax. The sound seemed so far away.

I would have seemed so far away because it *was* farther away, as compared
to a curved model, isn't that true? To have a true test, the comparison
should have been made by someone listening at a considerable distance.
And then, to obtain valid results, there would have had to have been some
kind of attempt to ensure that the two instruments were essentially
equivalent in all regards except the curvature.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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