Klarinet Archive - Posting 000566.txt from 2002/01

From: "Denis BLION" <denis.blion@-----.fr>
Subj: Re: [kl] Benade Clarinet Mouthpiece Overblowing at the Octave?
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 18:05:39 -0500

Thank's for having done this test. I'll go to bed not more clever, but less
stupid...

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

>
>
> >That's why I think it would be interesting to make a test whith a
clarinet
> >mouthpiece on a saxophone (with a saxophone mouthpiece on a clarinet
too).
>
> I finally got around to doing this, and here is what I came up with. When
> blowing through a saxamaphone (this is a tenor sax) on a clarinet
mouthpiece
> (while it didn't fit on perfectly, I was able to make sure it fit on there
> to the point to where I could at least get a sound out of the instrument)
it
> overblows to the octave, like a tenor saxaphone should. Here's the weird
> thing: When I put the sax mouthpiece on the clarinet (again, I made it fit
> best I could) it seemed to overblow to the tritone an octave higher (which
> would be a flat 12th, right?). Anyone else want to experiment with this?
>
> Natalie
>
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