Author: Scott Miller
Date: 2002-08-30 10:47
Answers, such as I have. I looked at Brian's pictures. In the "assembled" picture his horn looks slightly larger in every dimension, particularly diameter. After looking at the "cased" pic, I ain't so sure, but his case is much larger than mine. The "Saxello" is interesting, but completely different (a "tweener" soprano sax). The Saxonette is way smaller than an alto clarinet. My take is that it is also too small to be a soprano, so we have a small dilemma there. If the key of a clarinet is determined in open fingering position, the horn is in E-flat, or so says my piano. Sound. Two caveats. First, I am a sax, not a clarinet player, and an inactive one at that. Second, I've not heard the instrument played by anyone else, and what the player and the audience hears differ. Having said that here are my subjective impressions (soft reed, just >#2): woody, slightly more throaty than clear, with surprising volume and projection. Much closer to clarinet than sax. I was prepared for some metallic ("tinny") artifacts attributable to the bell, but I can't hear any. It's tempted to credit the bell with the projection, too, but I'm suspicious that isn't true. I'll have to dredge up an Oehler finger chart and see if it makes sense with the horn. Bore sure seems to be cylindrical. I will post inside diameter(s) as soon as I locate my inside calipers. The relationship of "resistance" to bore is a fairly complicated funtion, is it not? At least I would believe so from articles like this one on Moennig barrels:
http://www.jdhite.com/mouthpieces/shop1.htm
Any other measurements I should take while I'm at it?
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