Klarinet Archive - Posting 000013.txt from 1994/07

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Timothy Tikker's metal clarinet
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 13:25:55 -0400

Tim, yours was an especially fascinating note. I ask you a number of
specific things about your instrument. You said full Boehm and I want
to make sure that it has all of the things that I associate with full
Boehm clarinets:

1. descent is to a written low E-flat as to lowest tone
2. f#-g# (last line on top of staff to first space above staff)
may be played in articulation mode; i.e., simply raising and
lowering the middle finger of the right hand so long as the
g# key is depressed
3. g-b flat (first space above staff to second space above staff)
may be executed simply by raising middle finger of left hand
4. two sliver key in the right hand, one between the first and
second hold, and one between the second and third hole

I have a pair of full Boehm clarinets, one in B-flat and one in A. They
were never a popular model in symphonies because the extra mechanisms that
enable certain fingering solutions introduced intonation problems. But
the low-E flat was used by several composers. In fact the Peter and the
Wolf solo is for B-flat clarinet with a low E-flat extension on it. Today,
the solo is invariably played on an A clarinet a half tone highher.

Such instruments are no longer in most maker's catalogs

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
(leeson@-----.edu)
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