Klarinet Archive - Posting 000133.txt from 1994/10

From: Cary Karp <karp@-----.SE>
Subj: Re: Some hot news (for those who find this kind of thing "hot")
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 13:03:57 -0400

On Fri, 14 Oct 1994, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> Well you all know the results of that work. Today you can go out and
> buy a basset clarinet (in A only) and a number of recordings have been
> made featuring such instruments. And both the concerto and the quintet
> have had to be looked at in light of this work.
>
> But until recently, it was still just theory. No matter how logical it
> was, no matter anything, not a single example of Stadler's basset
> clarinet could be found. No picture, no sample, no nothing!!

Basset clarinets started turning up in the 70's and several such
instruments are known.

> And this weekend in Boston, such an instrument made by
> a clarinet player (who studied how to make instruments in order to be
> able to make one) will be played on by him to do the Mozart quintet.
> I am not sure of the spelling but his name is "Huprecht."

Eric Hoeperich is as American as most of this lists's members and has
been making period clarinets professionally for quite some time. Unless
my memory is way out of whack, he has long since recorded the Mozart
quintet on a basset clarinet of his own making. I'll check this out at
home in a few hours and provide as discography.

Eric knows full well both how to make the things and play them, so the
Boston performance is quite likely to be superlative. I'd be curious to
know a bit more about its innovative aspects, though.

Cary <Karp@-----.se>