Klarinet Archive - Posting 000052.txt from 1995/10

From: Robert.Spring@-----.BITNET
Subj: Re: B clarinet
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 13:41:46 -0400

Ed,

Thanks for the response. I checked length with my C clarinet and it is in
between the length of my C and my B flat. About 2 inches longer than the C
and about 1 inch shorter than the B flat. Should have put that in the
original post. I also got the following paragraph from our instrument tech
person.

Bob,

I spoke with Harold Winkler (his father was the Win in Belwin) Harold's
close to 80 and knows the Fisher operation well. Again they were importers
& distributers. If the instrument is marked France it is probably a Buffet
product.

The plot thickens!!!

>On Wed, 4 Oct 1995 Robert.Spring@-----.BITNET wrote:
>
>> 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!
>>
>Leaky pads, a mouthpiece and reed which might or might not be suitable
>for the instrument, and the fact that it probably hasn't been played in
>years could all have some influence, but it seems to me that the most
>likely possibility is that you have a C clarinet at low pitch. Someone
>on the list might be able to tell you what the exact tuning of low pitch
>instruments was, but my experience has been that it isn't an entire
>semi-tone lower than A@-----.
>So perhaps you have a C clarinet at low pitch, which was playing sharp
>because you used a throat tone to test it.
>
>Just some speculation.
>
>Ed Lacy
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>Dr. Edwin Lacy University of Evansville
>Professor of Music 1800 Lincoln Avenue
> Evansville, IN 47722
>el2@-----.edu (812)497-2252
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Dr. Robert S. Spring
Professor of Music (Clarinet)
School of Music
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-0405
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