Klarinet Archive - Posting 000185.txt from 2008/09

From: heckelphone@-----.net (Grant Green)
Subj: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 26 Sep 2008 21:01:01 -0000 Issue 7995
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:37:18 -0400

>Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:51:10 -0800
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>From: "dickwilliams" <dickwilliams@-----.com>
>Subject: Re: [kl] Re: Post on clarinets
>
>Two questions:
>
>1) Other than the material and key system, how does a
>tarogato differ from a saxophone? Both are single reed,
>conical instruments.

The original tarogato was more of a folk shawm, and the national instrument of Hungary. The modern version was developed shortly after the saxophone became popular. According to A. Benade ("Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics"), the tarogato changes timbre above a certain dynamic level.

>2) Does anyone know of a double reed cylindrical instrument?

The crumhorn, cornamuse, kortholt, and sordune all have cylindrical bores and double reeds (all Renaissance instruments). As for modern instruments, only the tromboon (see Peter Schickele/P.D.Q. Bach) and the slide reed contrabass (see http://www.contrabass.com/pages/sliderackett.html, the invention of Philip Neuman) come to mind.

Enjoy,

Grant

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