Klarinet Archive - Posting 000345.txt from 1995/06

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: One more point on C clarinets
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 11:04:05 -0400

A posting on C clarinets to which I responded quoted Oskar Kroll's
book as remarking about how some players had been using B-flat
mouthpieces on C clarinets.

In the context of a C clarinet made in France, this statement is
without significance because the French C clarinets are made to be
played with a traditional Bb clarinet mouthpiece.

But the German C clarinets are not necessarily that way. Uebel,
Hammerschmidt, and Wurlitzer, if they make C clarinets - and I
don't know if they continue to do so - probably made a different
mouthpiece for their C. So in this context, the peculiar statement
in Oskar Kroll's book is quite clear. Kroll was a German. The
book is essentially about clarinet playing in the German speaking
nations. One is never really sure, of course, what was in Kroll's
mind because he died in WW2 and the book was, I believe, completed by
someone else, though the manuscript in Kroll's hand was essentially
finished.

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
(leeson@-----.edu)
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