Klarinet Archive - Posting 000468.txt from 2002/04

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Octave repeaters vs. Twelfth repeaters
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 23:51:47 -0400

> From: Rick Campbell [mailto:ricksax@-----.com]
>
> As a good saxophonist, weak clarinetist, and sometime bassoonist, the
> unique feature that divides us on the issue of "woodwinds" must be that
> only, ONLY, the clarinet fails to repeat on the octave, a damnable
> deficiency in my mind.

Of course, the acoustics of the closed cylinder demand that 12ths repeat,
not the octave.

Mark C.

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