Klarinet Archive - Posting 000069.txt from 1995/10

From: Donald Oehler <dloehler@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: B clarinet
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 19:26:05 -0400

I think I have some of these around the house. Does it have HP anywhere
on the instrument? I have a very nice Buffet (brought in by C. F.) Bb
that is about one inch or more shorter than the normal 440 clarinet and
plays at a very high pitch, almost a semi tone step up. These high pitched
instruments were used in French military bands. My horn is a Boehm
system from 1909. I have several Alberts that are high pitched, also.
Good luck,
Don Oehler
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!
>
> 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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> School of Music
> Arizona State University
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