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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2004-09-09 06:29
No, not buying a new clarinet...
A friend of mine (who is a tenor saxophone player) took his mouthepice, attached it (using some sort of plastic pipe) to a flute (without the mouthpiece part of it). The sound was like a bass clarinet (but not a clarinet) playing high notes. It played pretty much in tune.
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Author: marcia
Date: 2004-09-09 16:58
And then there was the guy who wanted to play trumpet but didn't like the sensation of 'buzzing" so he had a piece of cork put on the end of the lead pipe to take a sax mouthpiece.
True story!! I saw the instrument in the shop. I had to ask why the trumpet had a piece of cork on it. I was given the above reason. There was, understandably, much derision among the guys in the shop. Since they were being paid to do this so they were willing to humour the customer. I don't know how it ended but wold love to have been a fly on the wall when the customer tried to play it.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2004-09-09 17:33
C B - I'd guess that you have converted the flute, cylindrical tube, open-ended at both tube end AND mp, into a "clar-bore" , cyl , open only at the end, which ?should? overblow 12ths etc, and with reed it becomes a clarinet [of sorts] ! Not partic, new?? Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2004-09-09 18:15
Marcia - a trumpet has a cylindrical bore. It acts as an open pipe and plays the 2,3,4,5,6,7... harmonics. The fundamental is more or less impossible to play.
With a single reed, maybe it would act as a closed pipe. Assuming the fundamental remains impossible, it would play only the 3,5,7.... harmonics, but an octave lower than the corresponding harmonics of a normal trumpet. The customer would have been very disappointed if this were the case.
Has anyone tried this (a) with a trumpet and/or (b) with a cornet, which is conical?
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If there are so many people on this board unwilling or unable to have a civil and balanced discussion about important issues, then I shan't bother to post here any more.
To the great relief of many of you, no doubt.
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Author: ron b
Date: 2004-09-09 18:28
When Tinker Toys became obsolete in the late '40s/early 50s (just this past century folks , because they were replaced by Television![[frown]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie2.gif) , vast segments of society's minds went to sleep. Is that also around the time inquisitive minds become the object of derision, or has it been going on longer? Whatta y' think? Uh, hello? anybody listenin'...?
What you describe, Clarnibass, is not a new instrument but a similar encapsulated approach to the thought processes that developed into today's clarinets. Similarly, alto sax mouthpieces on baritone horns (paper shim works good) get some very musically interesting results. Look at(not just you, Clarni - folks in general), if you're one of those oddballs who occasionally visits libraries, pictures of keyed cornets, double reed sarrousaphones and single reed trumpets.
Then tell me... oh, well -- never mind....
- ron b(zzz) -
Post Edited (2004-09-09 18:31)
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