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Author: kdk
Date: 2010-08-16 21:44
Does anyone recognize this instrument?
Post Edited (2010-08-16 21:45)
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Author: kdk
Date: 2010-08-16 21:48
The attachment didn't arrive with the message. I'll try to see what's wrong.
Karl
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Author: kdk
Date: 2010-08-16 22:04
The image I was trying to upload is a photo a friend of a friend took on a vacation in Eastern Europe this summer. It's a musician in some kind of traditional-looking costume playing an instrument that is a single reed (held to the mouthpiece by a metal ligature similar to a non-inverted Bonade) with a black body like a clarinet, about the length (at least to my eye) of an A clarinet with a simple but clarinet-like system of keys, but conical like a straight soprano sax (the keywork is definitely not sax-like).
Having read the rule about uploading images, I would have no way of getting the musician's permission to post his picture, although I might be able to get permission from the person who took it. Given the general location and the above description, does anyone have an idea what it could be. If I have a name, I can Google it to see if it matches.
Thanks,
Karl
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Author: Barry Vincent
Date: 2010-08-16 22:09
Sounds like a Tarogato. This instrument use to be a double reed pipe but nowadays a clarinet type mouthpiece is used on it making it a single reed pipe.
Skyfacer
Post Edited (2010-08-16 22:12)
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Author: kdk
Date: 2010-08-16 22:25
Well, that was easy. The picture at Wikipedia certainly looks like the same thing minus a ring around the end of the bell.
Thanks!
Karl
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2010-08-17 00:37
Tarogato (Taragot in Romanian) is an instrument heard typically in Transylvania. You'll hear both "Hungarian" and "Romanian" music played on it (Transylvania has a population which includes both ethnicities and Rom/Gypsy folk as well, despite being "in" Romania).
It sounds like different instruments at different times. Sometimes I've heard it sound like a trumpet, sometimes like an oboe, sometimes like clarinet or sax, and sometimes like all of the above! They are effectively like a "simple system" version of a wooden soprano sax.
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