Author: Chris P
Date: 2023-04-16 05:27
In the UK, we use the word 'crook' for both single and double reed instruments, whereas in the US it's 'bocal' for double reeds and 'neck' for single reeds.
Hence basset horns, alto clarinets, bass clarinets and contra-alto/bass clarinets have crooks, as do saxes from two-piece sopranos through to contrabass, as well as oboes d'amore/d'amour (or oboe d'amores/d'amours if you like to do that), cors anglais, bass (baritone) oboes, mini bassoons/tenoroons, bassoons and contrabassoons.
And Heckelphones, lupophones, Sarrusophones, Rothphones and contrabass a anche (is that pluralised as contrabassi a anche?) also have crooks. Not entitely sure why I capitalised Heckelphone, Sarrusophone and Rothphone when I spelt saxes all in lower case.
Flutes (short reach concert, alto and bass flutes) have curved headjoints - no crooks with flutes, although bass and great bass recorders usually have crooks, as do larger shawms and other large (or deep) renaissance or Baroque woodwinds with some from of tubing fitted into the top end of them to make them physically possible to play (Baroque racketts are deep as opposed to being large instruments given their compactness).
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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