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Re: Saxophone or clarinet

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2003-03-31 16:10

I'm voting Eb contrabass clarinet. As John said, the side view shows a non-expanding body, and the first half of the bell doesn't expand, either. The key is the mouthpiece, which has a clarinet-style cork rather than a sax-style design. Also, although the inital view isn't entirely clear, it appears to have Ab and A throat keys rather than saxophone palm keys. The right hand layout has sax-style keys, but it could easily have German fingering, or just eliminate the duplicate keys on a comparatively inexpensive student-level instrument.

There was another Orsi, with the same giant mouthpiece, that was discussed a year or so ago.

Best regards.

Ken Shaw

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