Klarinet Archive - Posting 001005.txt from 1999/12

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Recorders
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 15:27:19 -0500

Hi Dee D.,

Happy holidays to you. Those precursors to the chalumeau were called idioglots.
Drop me a line at: rbushidioglot@-----.

"Dee D. Hays" wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <LeliaLoban@-----.com>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 9:14 AM
> 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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