Klarinet Archive - Posting 000292.txt from 2002/01

From: "Denis BLION" <denis.blion@-----.fr>
Subj: Re: [kl] Benade Clarinet Mouthpiece Overblowing at the Octave?
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 18:19:53 -0500

Did somebody try tu put a clarinet mouthpiece on a saxophone? I'm curious to
know if it will overblow at the Octave...

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

> 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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