Author: Chris P
Date: 2017-09-13 20:47
Regardless of the mouthpiece or reeds, saxes and tarogatos are essentially wide bore shawms, so share the same physical traits as oboes, bassoons, heckelphones, sarrusophones, Uilleann pipe chanters and the like with their expanding conical bores.
Saxes are more closely related to oboes than they are to clarinets, even though the sax has a single reed mouthpiece - there are single reed oboe and bassoon mouthpieces, but that makes no difference in the way they behave due to the conical bore.
Clarinets, duduks, rackets, auloi, bagpipe practice chanters, cornamuse and other parallel-bore reed instruments (both single and double) all share the same physical traits. They also behave like pan pipes in they overblow the odd series harmonics instead of all the harmonic series.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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