[thechat] politics, guitars, etc...
Martin Burns
martin at easyweb.co.uk
Thu Jun 27 09:22:05 CDT 2002
On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 06:33 am, Jonathon Isaac Swiderski wrote:
>>> At 01:03 AM 6/27/2002, Ben Dyer wrote:
>>>> I'm sorry that's incorrect. Kenny G plays the Soprano Saxophone
>>>> which
>>>> resembles and plays like a clarinet but definitely sounds more like a
>>>> saxophone.
>
> from the same site as before, the soprano saxophone (or sop sax):
> http://www.jazzinamerica.org/l_jazzimages_d.asp?PageNo=5&PhotoID=44
Very similar to the clarinet, except
1) Made of metal, not wood (which affects the tone)
2) It's conical, not cylindrical, so overblows at the 12th, not the
octave[1] (which means it plays a bit different to the clarinet)
Cheers
Martin
[1] IIRC from my very ancient acoustics classes
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