Klarinet Archive - Posting 000013.txt from 1969/12

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Standing with bass clarinet
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500

One of my students created one that we normally carry. We are temporarily out of these, but will have them in stock again. This works much better than any of the other straps I have seen. We use them on alto, tenor, baritone and bass sax. We also use them on bass and alto clarinet.

When my student first showed them to me, I am sure that I seemed very disbelieving to him, but I humored him and tried it. After trying it, I acquired a dozen of them and put them in many of my cases. I was rear-ended on Jan 5, 1972 (it was a bad injury!) coming home from a San Francisco Symphony concert and had a bad back for a number of years. Since I switched to this strap, years later, my bad back has never bothered me.

We have sold over 825 of them.

Kurt Heisig
Kurt Heisig Saxes
(831) 425-5658

-----Original Message-----
>From: clarni bass <clarnibass@-----.com>
>Sent: Apr 9, 2007 6:14 AM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: [kl] Standing with bass clarinet
>
>Hello
>
>For bass clarinet - I would like to ask if anyone
>knows about a harness-type strap (the type that goes
>more on your shoulders than neck) that will put the
>instrument in the same position (or at least close) as
>a regular neck strap.
>
>I like the position of the bass clarinet that a
>regular neck strap gives me, but can't really use it.
>Any harness I've used had the instrument too close to
>the body and put the mouthpiece in an uncomfortable
>position. I tried a long peg and that doesn't work for
>me too.
>
>Anyone found a solution to this problem?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Nitai
>
>
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