Klarinet Archive - Posting 000278.txt from 2002/01

From: agalper <agalper@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Benade Clarinet Mouthpiece Overblowing at the Octave?
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:10:46 -0500

Placing a single reed mouthpiece on an ophicleide did lead to the invention of
the saxophone. The ophicleide is a cone instrument. That is how the saxophone
came to be an octave playing instrument. The invention of Adolphe Sax.

Kevin Fay wrote:

> Doug Sears added to the string:
>
> <<<Benade wrote about the flute/clarinet combination in _Fundamentals of
> Musical Acoustics_, Chapter 22.6, "B. Implications of Putting a Flute Head
> Joint onto a Clarinet" (p. 490 in the Dover edition).>>>
>
> I'm astonished - shocked! - that there would be serious academic study over
> activites that we performed in our youth (i.e., messing around in the Band
> Room).
>
> I mean, what would happen if you stuck a clarinet mouthpiece on an
> ophicleide? What monstrosity would occur then?
>
> kjf
>
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