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Author: Todd W.
Date: 2003-10-29 00:09
". . . the clarinet is reasonably easy to pick up as a beginner's instrument."
Agreed. After all, it weighs less than two pounds; even a child can lift it. Although maybe with those 24K (!) keys . . .
Todd W.
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Author: Douglas
Date: 2003-10-29 03:08
Surely the "Auler" system clarinet repeatedly referred to in this article is really the Oehler.
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Author: Don Poulsen
Date: 2003-10-29 20:01
I didn't read the whole thing, but in the parts I read, I found a few items that I question.
It states that clarinets are the only cylindrical woodwinds in that even flutes are conical. If I'm not mistaken, before Boehm got ahold of them, flutes were conical, but starting with Boehm's invention, all modern flutes are cylindrical.
It also states that, in the woodwind family, only the bassoon's range is greater than that of the clarinet. Isn't the bassoon's range also about 3 1/2 octaves? I would argue that the clarinet is surpassed only by extended range clarinets, such as the low-C bass clarinet.
It leaves the contraalto clarinet out of its list of existing varieties of clarinet.
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