Klarinet Archive - Posting 000064.txt from 1969/12

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] 435-- Haynes flutes-- 435?
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500


Weren't Haynes flutes made at one time to 435, and in the '60's they just chopped the heads to bring them up?

-----Original Message-----
>From: Keith Bowen <keith.bowen@-----.com>
>Sent: Oct 29, 2010 8:28 AM
>To: 'The Klarinet Mailing List' <klarinet@-----.com>
>Subject: Re: [kl] We are missing an instrument
>
>Depends on the pitch of the orchestra. Could well be 435.
>
>Keith
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Martin Baxter [mailto:martinbaxter1@-----.com]
>Sent: 29 October 2010 15:57
>To: The Klarinet Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [kl] We are missing an instrument
>
>
>On 29 Oct 2010, at 02:57, Dan Leeson wrote:
>
>There were two kinds of B-flat clarinets made by the manufacturers. One was
>a B-flat clarinet and the other was characterized as a B-flat clarinet HP,
>meaning high pitched. The need for both instruments derived from the fact
>that when a player was contacted for a job, he invariably asked, "What
>pitch?" And depending on the answer to that question, he chose the B-flat
>clarinet or the B-flat clarinet HP.
>
>But that is not the same as a clarinet in B-natural, though it might work if
>
>one were required. I once had a guy who brought such a clarinet to my
>attention, and I was stupid enough to think that it was just a badly made
>instrument. I should have bought it and used it as a clarinet in B-natural.
>
>Dan
>You would have found it rather flat. I've tried it and did.
>Martin
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <kurtheisig@-----.net>
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>Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 6:13 PM
>Subject: Re: [kl] We are missing an instrument
>
>
>>
>> Dan,
>>
>> Many years ago a fellow brought a clarinet into the store.
>>
>> It appeared to be a high pitched B natural clarinet. I think it was a
>> Selmer or Buffet.
>>
>> Can you tell us anything about that?
>>
>> Kurt
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Dan Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net>
>>> Sent: Oct 28, 2010 2:05 PM
>>> To: Klarinet <klarinet@-----.com>
>>> Subject: [kl] We are missing an instrument
>>>
>>> Thus far the list of clarinets and their names has occupied us for some
>>> time.
>>>
>>> But no one has mentioned a clarinet called for by Mozart twice (Idomeneo
>>> and Cosi) and which has an unusual pitch.
>>>
>>> So how come "the clarinet in B-natural" is hidden from view.
>>>
>>> Dan
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