Klarinet Archive - Posting 000595.txt from 1995/09

From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@-----.UK>
Subj: Re: Tony Pay's basset clarinet
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 11:01:59 -0400

Dan Leeson writes:

> The bottom line is that Tony's instrument was not a special one-off,
> but was exactly what was then being advertised in Selmer's
> catalog.

Tony most definitely _does_ have a `repro' [or whatever one wants to
call it] instrument that Daniel Bangham made for him. Indeed, IIRC,
there's a picture of it in the booklet that accompanies his recording
of K622 (I bought my copy of that recording from Daniel: _he_ doesn't
think particularly highly of it, but I love it).

OTOH, the only times I've heard Tony in concert, he was playing a
modern instrument. (One of those times, he was playing K622 -- but
that was while he was still a student: he was a contemporary here of
mine.)

Robin