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Author: Jim
Date: 2002-03-27 21:30
I have been informed by Buffet that a clarinet that I own is a model N (degree sign)1 . (Note - my keyboard won't allow me to type a degree sign - so you must imagine that the model number is N degree sign 1) This clarinet was made in 1954 and has both an articulated G# as well as an articulated F# in the lower joint. I have never heard of this particular model. Does anyone know anything about this model? Thanks for your help.
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2002-03-27 22:25
Jim, if you mean the old Nš1, I'm familiar with how to type it, but not with the instrument.
egards,
John
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Author: Wayne Thompson
Date: 2002-03-28 05:07
Put on your 'number lock'. Then hold down the 'alt' key and type '248'. You'll get a ° . Do an internet search on the 'ASCII' code and you'll find a bunch more nifty characters. These codes are a lower level than your word processing and email programs so they work independent or your program.
Wayne Thompson
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-03-28 05:21
Wayne Thompson wrote:
> Then hold down the 'alt' key
> and type '248'. You'll get a ° . Do an internet search on
> the 'ASCII' code and you'll find a bunch more nifty
> characters.
Do not use these for HTML pages since different codesets display those "ALT" characters differently (they're not ASCII, actually, since ASCII is only defined for 7 bits). Use ° - °.
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Author: E. Michael Blake
Date: 2002-03-28 21:34
I feel like a spoilsport, but I think that the original purpose of this share advice on how to type a degree sign and make it show up as such on the receiving end (as fascinating a subject as this is). Sadly, I can't provide any worthwhile data on the main topic, but I think I can help out on a couple of side points. First, a capital N followed by a what looks like a degree sign is actually a somewhat archaic, and I think mainly European, abbreviation for the word "Number" ("No.", as we might write it), so this usage by Buffet may just mean "Model Number One."
Also, in response to Javier's thus-far-ignored question, articulated keys are designed so that one can get the effect of using a certain key by hitting a different one. The G# on a saxophone is articulated, so if you hold down any key in the left-hand pinky cluster, it also works the G#. This is extremely handy if, as so often happens with an E-flat sax, one is playing in a key that gives one three or more sharps. If you have a run with a low C# and a G# right on top of one another, you just hold down the C# sharp key and leave it there, moving only tone-hole fingers to get to the G# without having to move the pinky. As I struggle now with the non-articulated C#/G# on the clarinet, I sometimes wish I'd gotten a full-Boehm (or Oehler?) that includes the extra keywork.
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Author: E. Michael Blake
Date: 2002-03-28 22:25
Mmph. I try to proofread everything before I post, but the first line got garbled. I was snarking that "...the original purpose of this THREAD WAS NOT TO share advice..." (caps indicate omitted words). Sorry.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-03-29 00:40
While the thread may not have started that way - exactly - learning how to communicate succintly and correctly via this electronic means <b>is</b> important.
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