Klarinet Archive - Posting 000082.txt from 1995/10

From: mlfl%vax.ox.ac.uk@-----.BITNET
Subj: Re: B clarinet
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 03:52:24 -0400

Dr. Lacy: I don't really know about U.S.pitch standards, but there was no
20th-century European pitch standard even a quarter-tone lower than a'@-----. A
possible oversight: if the throat B flat was *sharp* on a "flat " C instrument,
then surely it would be *nearer* to B flat than it would have been.
Roger Shilcock [MLFL, Oxford, U.K.]