Klarinet Archive - Posting 000034.txt from 1995/06

From: SCOTT MCCHESNEY <scmcchesney@-----.NET>
Subj: Matched Clarinet
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 15:42:20 -0400

This has always made me wonder ever since I heard about it. I kind of
asked this before, but it was buried in another response, so I'll give it its
due time.
With all this talk of Bb and A clarinets being the "matched pair" of
sopranos, I've often wondered why the Eb and D combination of Soprano clarinets
died out. Almost everybody today plays an Eb exclusively, and the parts
written for a D are played on an Eb. I've never heard of anybody playing a D
clarinet, though I must admit that my scope of news and other such tidbits like
this is severely limited.
Any answers out there? Why did the D clarinet die out? And, for that
matter, why did the Bb and Eb clarinets become the "standard" clarinets?

-- Scott

   
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