Klarinet Archive - Posting 000382.txt from 1996/05

From: Ed Lowry <72122.3073@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Left handed clarinets
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 18:50:01 -0400

Richard Larson wrote:

>It depends on rather you have a left or right hand horn. :-)

> The left hand goes on the TOP joint?!!! No wonder I've been having trouble
> with my little fingers!

Has anyone noticed the number of times a picture is reversed on an album
cover so that it appears the clarinetist is holding a left-handed clarinet?
-- (I assume the negative has been turned over -- maybe there is
such a thing!?)

I have a Buddy De Franco Album from the '70's, "Love Affair With a Clarinet"
prominently featuring him "left hand down." I also have a CD with
Victoria Soames and Julius Drake doing the "World Premier Recording"
of Copland's Sonata for Clarinet & Piano, as well as the complete Clarinet
Music of Les Six, where she cradles a left-handed Buffet -- perhaps it's
a world premiere in more than one way.

Finally, Sabine Meyer's collaboration with James galway playing
Danzi has a gold flute (presumably Galway's) morphed with a Boehm system
clarinet. Doesn't
she play an Oehler?

Ed Lowry
Sacramento