Klarinet Archive - Posting 000729.txt from 2003/10

From: alevin@-----. Levin)
Subj: Re: [kl] Barousaphone- was slide clarinet
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:05:58 -0500

If I remember correctly, a sousaphone mouthpiece on a baritone sax would be
a keyed ophicleide!

At 04:43 PM 10/27/03 -0800, you wrote:
>When I was an undergraduate I played bari-sax in the Fresno State marching
>band. My roomate (Tom Bingham -now director of bands at University of
>Hawaii) played Sousaphone in the band. We discovered that with enough tape
>around the Sousaphone lead pipe a bari-sax mouthpiece fit very well.
>
>The sound was what I would imagine a teradactyl
>might emit in it's dying moments. Ah, how Gin and 7-up can fire the genius
>of youth.
>
>Clark
>
>
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