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Author: Willie
Date: 2000-01-07 05:16
Mark! Would this Saxonette you refer to earlier be a metal clarinet, curved like an alto sax? If so, it may be what a lady described to me couple months ago. I assumed she was confusing an old curved soprano sax for a clarinet as I never have seen or heard of one around here.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-01-07 14:16
Willie - I have no clue! What I wrote was directly out of <i>The New Langwill Index</i>.
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2000-01-07 14:25
Willie wrote:
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<br>Mark! Would this Saxonette you refer to earlier be a metal clarinet, curved like an alto sax? If so, it may be what a lady described to me couple months ago. I assumed she was confusing an old curved soprano sax for a clarinet as I never have seen or heard of one around here.
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<br>Willie -
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<br>I've never seen a completely metal clarinet curved like a soprano sax, but have seen at least 2 Bb (soprano) clarinets in alto clarinet format, with a standard body, a curved metal barrel and a curved up metal bell. They played pretty badly, but were not in top condition.
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<br>There have been experimental instruments that tried to straddle the line between clarinet and saxophone. See my posting at <A HREF=http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?id=1869>http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?id=1869<A>
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<br>It's possible that what I remember as "Octanette" was actually "Saxonette." It was all wood and, at least as I recall from many years ago, was in a "U" shape like a small bassoon. As I said in the earlier posting, it was not a satisfactory instrument, as a clarinet, a saxophone or on its own.
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<br>Best regards.
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<br>Ken Shaw
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-01-07 19:27
I knew I should have bought that one in Houston some 45 years ago. Believe it was conical, like a sax, not a clar. Prob is described in some books. Don
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