Klarinet Archive - Posting 000098.txt from 1995/10

From: Mike Lockhart <lockhart@-----.COM>
Subj: Re the value of the B clarinet discussion
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 19:35:04 -0400

On Oct 5, Dan Leeson wrote:

>...
>I try to keep up with the history of clarinet playing and the trends
>in instrument types and choices, but I must admit that until I became
>involved with this whole question of high-pitch/low-pitch instruments
>just a few years ago, I had zero knowledge that this environment
>had existed in the world of clarinetdom, much less within such a short
>...

I have found the whole discussion to be very enlightening, informative and fun.
Also reinforcing my idea that the net (and groups like this one) was worth
getting onto.

It brings to mind another question. I have a friend who plays piano, and we
are
wont to get together (I play clarinet) and run through some Ellingtons from
time
to time. Neither of us transpose on sight well enough (or fast enough), so it
is usually I who labors on transposing the melody line for clarinet, and
neither
of us knows the answer to the question, "Why are instruments made in Bb, Eb,
etc., instead of C?"

Mike Lockhart

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