Klarinet Archive - Posting 000049.txt from 1995/10

From: Robert.Spring@-----.BITNET
Subj: B clarinet
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 12:30:47 -0400

One of my fellow professors at ASU brought me an old albert system clarinet
last week that her neighbor bought at a garage sale in Phoenix. It is a
Carl Fischer - which according to our instrument tech person here at the
University, Gerry Evoniuk, really means nothing as Carl Fischer
distributed, not manufactured, clarinets.

Anyway, I played the clarinet -sort of- it is in pretty bad shape, but it
was clearly in the key of B...not B flat! In that it was leaking so badly,
I tried a throat tone B flat, figuring that everything was open and the
leaks would have no real impact. The B flat came out a concert A!

I am wondering if this could be a very high pitch B flat clarinet or some
weird B natural clarinet. It is probably from this century.

Any bites on this?

Yes, I have read Dan Lesson's article in The Clarinet Magazine on the B
Clarinet and Mozart. Thanks Dan for the issue number!

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Dr. Robert S. Spring
Professor of Music (Clarinet)
School of Music
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-0405
Office - 602/965-4306, FAX - 602-965-2659, Home - 602/345-8013
Internet: Robert.Spring@-----.edu