Klarinet Archive - Posting 000528.txt from 2002/04

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] English/French horns
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 06:20:33 -0400

At 10:38 AM 4/19/2002 +0100, Roger Shilcock wrote:
>...One could add that the straight tenor oboe was commonly known as "taille
>d'hautbois", for no clear reason, and one (rare?) form was known as "vox
>humana"
>- whether before or after the coming into use of the well-known reed organ
>stop, I don't know.

Most likely before. Judging from the mechanisms in the reed organs in my
uncle's collection, the "vox humana" stop merely adds vibrato.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.net
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