Klarinet Archive - Posting 000062.txt from 1995/10

From: Mike Lockhart <lockhart@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Bob Spring's B clarinet
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 16:09:10 -0400

Ed Lacy wrote:
>[...] Interesting. I have always been under the impression, unsupported by
any
>evidence which would be acceptable in an academic environment, that high
>pitch meant A@-----. Any other ideas?

Steve Haaser wrote:

>High pitch on in Europe and I believe the US prior to say 1910 was at least
?A@-----. Many orchestral clarinetists got whacked twice in quick succession
>when they switched from high-pitch Albert horns to Boehm and then the pitch
>changed to 440.

>From Ed Lacy's and Steven Haaser's comments on pitch, and please bear with me
as I am not a professional musician, is the concept of high- and low- pitch due
to whatever was the standard (A=???) when the instruments were made? I also
have an old baritone sax which I believe is early 20th C (no removeable shank,
no maker's name, G# key separate from the lower stack) which is difficult to
get in tune with an ensemble - very similar to Ed Lacy's bass sax problems,
except I don't have to go as far as transposing

Mike Lockhart

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