Klarinet Archive - Posting 000519.txt from 2002/04

From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Logical Bassoon (was Octave repeaters vs. Twelfth repeaters)
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 00:29:04 -0400

The logical bassoon was demonstrated to the British Acoustical
Society at the BBC Research Department on the 5th December 1967
It was reported in The Listener, 9th November 1967, page 604
and Wireless World, January 1968, page 624
and at length in an illustrated article by Giles Brindley
in the Galpin Society Journal, XXI, March 1968.
At the time Giles Brindley was working at Cambridge
University. He moved in London (SE24) in about 1969.

The trouble with the logical bassoon was that it needed two
car batteries (24v) to power the solenoids and a 30v supply
for the anti-condensation heater wires.

Giles and his wife also play the (French) Horn and, in that
capacity, I met them once or twice in wind ensembles.

MB

Tony Pay wrote on Thursday, April 18, 2002 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Logical Bassoon (was Octave repeaters vs. Twelfth
repeaters)

> 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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