[thechat] politics, guitars, etc...

[Martin Burns]

On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 04:33  pm, Plunkett, Matt wrote:

> 	>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)
>
> 	Actually, it's the clarinet that overblows to the 12th.

Dammit. Wrong way round.

/me looks out his old copy of
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0198165056/martin043

Cheers
Martin

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