Klarinet Archive - Posting 000717.txt from 2002/06

From: "Lacy Schroeder" <LacyS@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] How a bell works, from Benade (also: Modern Basset Horn designs)
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:22:42 -0400

I think it's oboe d'amore and oboe di caccia. I remember from music
history that a caccia is a type of song in which one line seems to
"chase" the other. Tangent!

Lacy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Bush [mailto:rbushidioglot@-----.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 12:17 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] How a bell works, from Benade (also: Modern Basset
> Horn designs)
>=20
>=20
> It is interesting how few "modern" instruments have a bulbous=20
> bell. Those instruments that I know of that have this end=20
> modifier are: Oboe deamoura (sp?), English horn, Heckelphone=20
> and a saxophone made by Conn (maybe in the '20s) called a=20
> Conn-O-Sax. I don't know about the oboe de cautchia (again=20
> spelling? and I'm too lazy to look these spellings up)

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