Klarinet Archive - Posting 000146.txt from 1994/10

From: Timothy Tikker <tjt@-----.ORG>
Subj: Re: Re the Clarinet d'amour
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 01:35:58 -0400

The Clarinette d'amour was in A-flat or F, sometimes G or even B-flat,
according to Oskar Kroll - who also mentions that the Brussels instrument
collection even has a specimen in C.

Baines gives its usual pitch as G or A-flat, adding that some were in F.
One of the few composers to write for it was JC Bach, who has three parts
for it in his opera _Temistocle_ (1772) - oddly enough, for CdA in D!