While other woodwinds move to the upper register at the second harmonic above the fundamentals, this one shifts at the third register via an "overblowing" process. A quirk seen in German players of this instrument is to retain the string for constructing the mouthpiece, while the rest of the world now uses a metallic ligature. The basset horn and the bass and contralto var
While other woodwinds move to the upper register at the second harmonic above the fundamentals, this one shifts at the third register via an "overblowing" process. A quirk seen in German players of this instrument is to retain the string for constructing the mouthpiece, while the rest of the world now uses a metallic ligature. The basset horn and the bass and contralto variants are common, but more standard is the soprano kind, pitched in A or more often B flat with seventeen keys and six tone holes. For 10 points, name this single-reeded cylindrical-pipe instrument.
While other woodwinds move to the upper register at the second harmonic above the fundamentals, this one shifts at the third register via an "overblowing" process.
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