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Author: Scott Miller
Date: 2002-08-30 00:17
There is finally a picture of my Gretsch (LeBlanc, Paris?) Saxonette available, on Erik Ahlgren's "Clarinet Family" site. Not a *great* picture (my fault, not Erik's) mind, but it should be sufficient to give those of you who expressed curiosity about the instrument an accurate idea of it:
http://hem.passagen.se/eriahl/saxonette.htm
Any observations by clarophiles(?) are welcome...
-Scott
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Author: Scott Miller
Date: 2002-08-30 10:09
Oops! Sorry Mark! I hadn't been here for awhile (been busy too:) and had no idea you had posted these in-line. It looks like the best thing for me to do is to continue ths discussion in that thread. moving...
-Scott
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-08-30 11:44
NaScott Miller wrote:
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> Oops! Sorry Mark! I hadn't been here for awhile (been
> busy too:) and had no idea you had posted these in-line. It
> looks like the best thing for me to do is to continue ths
> discussion in that thread. moving...
> -Scott
That thread is too old by now; perhaps referring back to it from here for new comments would be a reasonable thing.
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Author: RS
Date: 2002-08-30 17:11
Like diz I'm interested in how it sounds and plays. To my eyes it's a very interesting looking little horn.
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Author: Scott Miller
Date: 2002-08-31 00:22
Ok, moving back. I'm easy:)
Answers, such as I have. I looked at Brian B's Selmer Saxonette pictures. In the "assembled" picture his horn looks slightly larger in every dimension, particularly diameter. After looking at the "cased" pic, I ain't so sure, but his case is much larger than mine. The "Saxello" is interesting, but completely different (a "tweener" soprano sax). The Saxonette is way smaller than an alto clarinet. My take is that it is even too small to be a soprano, so we have a "small" dilemma there. If the key of a clarinet is determined in open fingering position, the horn is in
E-flat, or so says my piano. Sound. Two caveats. First, I am a sax, not a clarinet, player, and an inactive one at that. Second, I've not heard the instrument played by anyone else, and what the player and the audience hears differs. Having said that here are my subjective impressions (soft reed, just >#2): woody, slightly more throaty than clear, with surprising volume and projection. Much closer to clarinet than sax. I was prepared for some metallic ("tinny") artifacts attributable to the bell, but I can't hear any. It's tempting to credit the bell with the projection, too, but I'm suspicious that isn't entirely true. I'll have to dredge up an Oehler fingering chart and see if it makes sense with the horn. Bore seems to be cylindrical. I will post inside diameter(s) as soon as I locate my calipers. The relationship of "resistance" to bore is a fairly complicated function, is it not? At least I would believe so from articles like this one on Moennig barrels:
http://www.jdhite.com/mouthpieces/shop1.htm
Any other measurements I should take while I'm at it?
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