Toby Rider wrote:
Jack Campin wrote:
(re Xaphoon)
Interesting idea but I don't see how anybody could play it accurately in tune: very short, no tuning barrel, no adjustable ligature, and a fiercely hard reed that would give you no lip control of the pitch at all.
Okay.. I have to ask.. What on earth is a Xaphoon?
See http://www.troubadour.uk.com/xaphoon.html
It's a pocket saxophonish thing pitched in C and played by contriving a rather strange arrangement of the fingers, which takes a day to master.
It is about as loud as a clarinet, with a tone like an old-fashioned sax, and has a fat mouthpiece like 19th century instruments.
The advantage is portability, and for people who can play them, speed. As fast as a tin whistle but with a fat sax reed sound.
David
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