Klarinet Archive - Posting 000255.txt from 2002/01

From: "Franklin Kercher" <kranwli@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Benade Clarinet Mouthpiece Overblowing at the Octave?
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:52:46 -0500

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From: <MVinquist@-----.com>
Subject: [kl] Benade Clarinet Mouthpiece Overblowing at the Octave?

You got me to thinking on this (cloud of smoke around the computer). If
it overblows the 8th in lieu of the 12th, what about all the extra keys?
Will it be posible to get that low C now? I just don't see how it would
work. MAYBE in one register, but not in all.

>
> From the Contrabass board:
>
> >>Art Benade the acoustitian, who was also a clarinettist, claimed that he
> had made a mouthpiece which overblows the octave, like a sax! <<
>
> Has anyone heard of this? Where in his writings does it appear, and what
did
> design involve? And, by the way, what did it sound like? A saxophone,
I'll
> bet.
>
> Ken Shaw
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