Klarinet Archive - Posting 000295.txt from 2002/01

From: jim & joyce <lande@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re:Benade Clarinet Mouthpiece Overblowing at the Octave?
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 20:58:03 -0500

>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

Dunno, but I do know what happens if you remove the valves
from a french horn and solder on a trombone slide as a
replacement. You get a "trauma horn" which makes hideous
bhwaaps. I don't recall how it overblows. However, those
who heard it would agree that any amount of blowing was
overblowing.

cheers
jim

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