Klarinet Archive - Posting 000051.txt from 1994/06

From: Timothy Tikker <tjt@-----.ORG>
Subj: Re: Electric woodwinds
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 1994 01:35:16 -0400

On Fri, 10 Jun 1994, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> Several years ago I saw a publication (from the UK) that was described as an
> unaccompanied work for electric basset clarinet in A. And I thought to
myself,
> "Whoever had the gumption to publish such a work must be an incurable
> optimist." So I went and bought the piece though I do not have a basset
> clarinet, electric or any other kind and I played it on my regular A clarinet
> which was really rather impractical because the piece required descent to the
> basset notes. I wonder how many copies of the work they sold?

Could it have been by Peter Maxwell Davies? He has written chamber works
which include a basset clarinet in A.

- Timothy Tikker
tjt@-----.org