Klarinet Archive - Posting 000062.txt from 1969/12

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] New York Times, Oct. 22 - Cast of Characters
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500

Dan,

You let me play one of the Selmer's at your house back in the '70's. It was FANTASTIC---thank you.

Kurt

-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net>
>Sent: Oct 28, 2010 1:54 PM
>To: The Klarinet Mailing List <klarinet@-----.com>
>Subject: Re: [kl] New York Times, Oct. 22 - Cast of Characters
>
>Yes. It is a fabulous horn, and when I retired and tried to sell it, no one
>was interested. That was dumb of them. Keith finally couldn't stand it any
>longer and he bought it. I still miss playing it and probably did 50
>performances of the Mozart Requiem on it. On my original Selmer pair, I
>think I did at least 100 more performances of the piece..
>
>Dan
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Joseph Fasel" <jhfasel@-----.com>
>To: "The Klarinet Mailing List" <klarinet@-----.com>
>Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 1:49 PM
>Subject: Re: [kl] New York Times, Oct. 22 - Cast of Characters
>
>
>Dan,
>
>I got to play that instrument at the Kammermusik workshop in Oxford
>last month. What a sweet horn! I really didn't want to give it back
>to Keith at the end of the week.
>
>Cheers,
>--Joe
>
>On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Dan Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:
>> Jennifer,
>>
>> I owned three basset horns, two Selmer and one Fox (of Canada). I sold the
>> two Selmers to a local player. One of them was owned by Mazzeo who sold it
>> to me after he retired. Both looked effectively identical and resembled
>> alto clarinets. Both had metal bells.
>>
>> The Fox was made for me using cocobolo wood and a wooden bell. It was a
>> straight up and down instrument except for the bocal which was wood and
>> angled. I sold it to Keith Bowen because he also had a Fox bassert horn in
>> cocobolo wood and bother his and mine came from the same block of wood.
>> Both
>> instruments had gold plated keys, though my instrument was double gold
>> plated. He and I did the gran Partitta on those instruments plus a variety
>> of Mozart's basset horn chamber music including the six notturni voice
>> voices and a mix of clarinets and basset horns.
>>
>> Dan Leeson
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jennifer Jones" <helen.jennifer@-----.com>
>> To: "The Klarinet Mailing List" <klarinet@-----.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 12:47 PM
>> Subject: Re: [kl] New York Times, Oct. 22 - Cast of Characters
>>
>>
>>> Hey Dan,
>>>
>>> Did you play a basset horn or basset clarinet? If so, what did it look
>>> like?
>>>
>>> -Jennifer
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Dan Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>> When I lived in Paris, I would go to concerts of the Guard Republican
>>>> Band.
>>>> In the program notes, the A-flat piccolo clarinet was identified as
>>>> "sopranino."
>>>>
>>>> Dan Leeson
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Klarinet mailing list
>>>> Klarinet@-----.com
>>>> To do darn near anything to your subscription, go to:
>>>> http://klarinet-list.serve-music.com
>>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Klarinet mailing list
>>> Klarinet@-----.com
>>> To do darn near anything to your subscription, go to:
>>> http://klarinet-list.serve-music.com
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Klarinet mailing list
>> Klarinet@-----.com
>> To do darn near anything to your subscription, go to:
>> http://klarinet-list.serve-music.com
>>
>_______________________________________________
>Klarinet mailing list
>Klarinet@-----.com
>To do darn near anything to your subscription, go to:
>http://klarinet-list.serve-music.com
>
>_______________________________________________
>Klarinet mailing list
>Klarinet@-----.com
>To do darn near anything to your subscription, go to:
>http://klarinet-list.serve-music.com

_______________________________________________
Klarinet mailing list
Klarinet@-----.com
To do darn near anything to your subscription, go to:
http://klarinet-list.serve-music.com