Klarinet Archive - Posting 000986.txt from 1999/12

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Recorders
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 14:32:54 -0500

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From: <LeliaLoban@-----.com>
Subject: [kl] Recorders

>
> ... The recorder is the clarinet's reedless ancestor and makes an
excellent
> doubling instrument for a clarinetist or a lightweight, starter instrument
> for a child who's still too small to begin on clarinet.

Great information in your post but to say the recorder is the reedless
ancestor of the clarinet is incorrect. The recorder is technically a
"fipple flute" or "block flute." It bears no ties to the clarinet. This
can be seen by the fact that the first register jump is the octave not the
twelfth. Recorders were eventually supplanted by the transverse flutes that
we see today as the volume of the recorder simply wasn't enough to cope with
a mass of strings or with other instruments like the oboe etc.

Primitive single reed instruments have been documented that even predate the
chalumeau. Something along the lines of a piece of cane tubing being cut
with one end split and modified to form a "mouthpiece/reed" result.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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