Klarinet Archive - Posting 001116.txt from 2003/03

From: "Doug Sears" <dsears@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Cylinders vs. Cones
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 14:17:53 -0500

I have played the Turkish zurna and Macedonian zurla, which are various sizes
of extremely loud shawmlike folk instruments with soft double reed not damped
by the lips. I think these are similar to the "middle-eastern instruments"
referred to below. They are roughly conical at the top, have a cylindrical
bore in the middle, and flare greatly at the bottom. You get a second
register by blowing really hard, but the overblown notes are not exactly an
octave higher, so you use different fingerings up there.

--Doug Sears

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph H. Fasel" <jhf@-----.gov>

> To follow up on my own post, I've done a little research: It seems that,
> at least broadly speaking, the medieval shawm (and presumably the middle-
> eastern instruments on which it is based) does not overblow, while the
> renaissance shawm and baroque oboe do.
>

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