Klarinet Archive - Posting 000435.txt from 1995/05

From: David Gilman <dagilman@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Frances Robinson and the MYSTERY CLARINET-the final
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 06:39:45 -0400

>Subject: Frances Robinson and the MYSTERY CLARINET-the final installment
>
>I am sorry I ended so abruptly yesterday. My dad came in and told me to
>disconnect the modem because I had been mailing for about an hour.
>Anyway, here is the end of the story.....
>So, we knew it was a c clarinet. The next half an hour I spent working
>out how to play it, when I realised that the book my mum learnt from,
>'Otto Langey's practical tutor for the clarinet and corno di basetto' was
>also a hundred years old or so. I had been trying to work out what system
>it was for months now, reading all the clarinet books that the library
>could offer. I opened the books and it fell open at 'scale of the
>clarinet in the simple system'-two keys, two rings, twisty speaker key-
>IT WAS IDENTICAL!!! As I practiced the scale in both registers,I realised
>what it was!!!
>However, this is by no means the end of the story. I am just about to
>ring Tim Bayley, and it will be restored. Anyone who knows anything about
>C clarinets, or the makers 'Savana, Paris' should help me........
>
>Frances 'key of C' Robinson
>
>
Frances,
This is fascinating! But where are the two keys and two rings?
Which fingers access them and which holes do the rings surround?
BTW, I don't know what was meant by "Monday morning" either, and
I've lived in the States (mostly in the Los Angeles area) all my life.
Keep up that blithe spirit!

David Gilman