Garry Greenwood's Leather Alchemy
Bowhorn
A meeting with the expatriate American (now Tasmanian) Karlin Love gave Greenwood the idea for an instrument that could accommodate a mouthpiece using a single reed. This instrument, which is approximately a metre in length, was first fitted with a clarinet mouthpiece but Love later found a tenor saxophone mouthpiece to be more satisfactory because of the acoustic power and timbral qualities of the larger mouthpiece. The Bowhorn pictured here is typical of most of Greenwood’s Bowhorns; with a carved leather ‘string’ connected to both ends of the instrument – serving to force it into its characteristic shaped – that of an archer’s bow.
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