Klarinet Archive - Posting 000216.txt from 2004/10

From: Adam Michlin <amichlin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Flutophones
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 09:13:34 -0400

Ah, but it doesn't get cooler than the Orkon.

What is an Orkon you say? I'm glad you asked! Designed by Edward Powell
(son of VQ), the Orkon was a short lived quasi-boehm recorder.

http://www.tjimaging.com/orkon/

If you download the advertisement PDF file for the Orkon:

http://www.tjimaging.com/orkon/images/flyer.pdf

You'll see it was even endorsed by Benny Goodman.

-Adam

(An interesting game to play, how far off topic can one go and still bring
the conversation back to the clarinet in one message)

At 08:49 AM 10/7/2004 -0400, Ken Wolman wrote:
>Whoever raised the flutophone topic left out the Tonette, which was
>another of those
>kid-oriented instruments intended to give the player a sense of how and
>why the notes
>followed each other, of how to breathe, etc. I don't think Tonettes are
>made anymore. I

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