Klarinet Archive - Posting 000044.txt from 1995/06

From: Jeff Bowles <jbowles@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: D Clarinet
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 23:43:14 -0400

SCOTT MCCHESNEY writes:
``what I'm
wondering is why do people settle for fixing the Eb so it can play the D
passages (such as the Strauss mentioned above), or just play them a half-step
higher? Why not get the D? Why does no one make a "good one" anymore?''

A possibly-related question is, are parts so few for this
instrument that few/no D clarinets are made now? What's the
demand for A-flat [piccolo] parts? I see that you can get
those instruments from the Selmer (or was it Buffet?) factory.

Yet I see more D parts than A-flat piccolo parts. So I'd expect
that D clarinets are easier to come by.

Unless, of course, the clarinet makes assume that D parts can
be played on E-flat clarinets. (Hell, most D parts can be played
on a B-flat [soprano] clarinet. But it's not the same sound.)

Jeff Bowles