[thechat] politics, guitars, etc...

Plunkett, Matt MPlunkett at MSA.com
Thu Jun 27 10:34:00 CDT 2002


	>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.  There are a
bunch of "throat" sounds on the clarinet that don't exist on saxes or
flutes.



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