Linsey Pollak | PiezoBarrel Wind Instrument Pickup - model comparisons - using a Mk10 Cylisax. @SquealyD | Uploaded 3 years ago | Updated 2 hours ago
In this short video I am comparing 5 different PiezoBarrel pickup models using one of my Mk10 Cylisaxes. PiezoBarrel pickups are designed to be attached to wind and brass instruments to pick up the relatively high pressure standing wave inside the instrument near the mouthpiece end. This has the benefit of allowing the instrument to be amplified without feedback or interference from other sounds outside the instrument. Here I am testing the "Wood', 'R1', 'P7', 'P9' and 'P6' PiezoBarrel models (and also a Rode Nt5 microphone as reference). For more info go to: piezobarrel.com
The Cylisax is a single reed woodwind instrument designed and made by Linsey Pollak. It has a cylindrical bore with a branch tube just below the mouthpiece making the bore open at both ends. Because of this branch tube, it overblows the octave like a saxophone, rather than an octave and a fifth like the clarinet. It behaves like a conical bore single reed instrument and sounds like a mellow soprano sax rather than a clarinet. It has the range of 2 octaves from middle C to d' and is fully chromatic using cross fingering (similar to recorder fingering). It uses a soprano saxophone mouthpiece. Because it has a cylindrical bore I have called it 'Cylisax'. The Mk10 Cylisax is the most recent Cylisax design (July 2021) and uses a copper branch tube parallel to the bore rather than the wooden branch tube at 90deg to the bore like the earlier models. It was initially inspired by the development of Yamaha's branch tube wind instrument, the Venova.
In this short video I am comparing 5 different PiezoBarrel pickup models using one of my Mk10 Cylisaxes. PiezoBarrel pickups are designed to be attached to wind and brass instruments to pick up the relatively high pressure standing wave inside the instrument near the mouthpiece end. This has the benefit of allowing the instrument to be amplified without feedback or interference from other sounds outside the instrument. Here I am testing the "Wood', 'R1', 'P7', 'P9' and 'P6' PiezoBarrel models (and also a Rode Nt5 microphone as reference). For more info go to: piezobarrel.com
The Cylisax is a single reed woodwind instrument designed and made by Linsey Pollak. It has a cylindrical bore with a branch tube just below the mouthpiece making the bore open at both ends. Because of this branch tube, it overblows the octave like a saxophone, rather than an octave and a fifth like the clarinet. It behaves like a conical bore single reed instrument and sounds like a mellow soprano sax rather than a clarinet. It has the range of 2 octaves from middle C to d' and is fully chromatic using cross fingering (similar to recorder fingering). It uses a soprano saxophone mouthpiece. Because it has a cylindrical bore I have called it 'Cylisax'. The Mk10 Cylisax is the most recent Cylisax design (July 2021) and uses a copper branch tube parallel to the bore rather than the wooden branch tube at 90deg to the bore like the earlier models. It was initially inspired by the development of Yamaha's branch tube wind instrument, the Venova.
