Klarinet Archive - Posting 000342.txt from 2002/01

From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Benade Clarinet Mouthpiece Overblowing at the Octave?
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 21:22:36 -0500

So the flute has a conical bore?

At 09:51 1/12/02 -0500, you wrote:
>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>
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 6:19 PM
>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
> > > >
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George Kidder
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