Klarinet Archive - Posting 000307.txt from 2002/01

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Benade Clarinet Mouthpiece Overblowing at the Octave?
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 09:51:06 -0500

Whether an instrument overblows the octave or the 12th is determined by the
shape of the bore of the instrument not the mouthpiece.

Dee Hays
Michigan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Denis BLION" <denis.blion@-----.fr>
Subject: Re: [kl] Benade Clarinet Mouthpiece Overblowing at the Octave?

> Did somebody try tu put a clarinet mouthpiece on a saxophone? I'm curious
to
> know if it will overblow at the Octave...
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "agalper" <agalper@-----.com>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:10 PM
> 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
> > >
> > > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail.
> > > http://www.hotmail.com
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > --
> > Avrahm Galper
> > CLARINET TONE TECHNIQUE AND STACCATO
> > CLARINET UPBEAT SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS
> > EINE KLEINE KLEZMER MUSIK
> > Sales at:luyben@-----.com
> > (816) 753-7111
> > http://www.avrahm-galper.sneezy.org
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>

---------------------------------------------------------------------