Klarinet Archive - Posting 000506.txt from 2002/04

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Logical Bassoon (was Octave repeaters vs. Twelfth repeaters)
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:56:04 -0400

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:14:58 -0400, clarinet@-----.net said:

> This reminded me of an article I found about 25 or 30 years ago in the
> "New Scientist":
>
> Change of Wind
>
> The case for a Logical Bassoon

[snip]

Another reference to Brindley, and this instrument, for anyone
interested:

http://www.woodwind.org/Databases/Logs/1998/11/000975.txt

Such an instrument would be much easier to construct now, given the
ready availablity of control programs running on desktop or portable
computers.

But this was well before all of that. (Almost unimaginable now.)

However, no real bassoon player would put up with the inadequacies of
such a system for any serious musical endeavour.

Likewise, in my opinion only, the notion of organising 'simpler'
clarinet fingerings than those currently available, by this or other
means, is only marginally interesting.

Trying to organise an instrument that has a really resonant,
clarinet-like sound, like the Benade/Fox initiative, is another matter.

Tony
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