Klarinet Archive - Posting 000957.txt from 2003/03

From: "Aimee Cheers" <cheers@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Cylinders vs. Cones: The Clarisoon
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 07:24:15 -0500

Bill wrote:
> Although one of the web pages that I posted a moment ago explicitly says
> that the krumhorn overblows a twelfth, the following web page says that
> a krumhorn cannot overblow at all:

I play in an early music consort, and we in fact had a rackett out just last
night. We also have a set of krumhorns and torture one another with them
occasionally! (I happen to enjoy it.....but that's just me.)

The krumhorns do not overblow, as far as I can tell, and as far as I have
been told at workshops and such. The rackett doesn't either. The krumhorn
does have two keys above the left hand holes, like the clarinet's A key and
register key, but neither functions like a register key.

Interesting to me, is that playing the krumhorn (capped double reed) feels
like playing an oboe, especially soprano and alto. It takes that much face
muscle and support. The others in my group only play recorders, so for
them, the krumhorn is physically exhausting. For me, it just brings back
oboe memories, which is weird, as you are just blowing into a little hole.

For what it's worth.

Aimee Cheers

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