Klarinet Archive - Posting 000511.txt from 1997/01

From: Everett Austin <austine@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Muhlfeld, string, and switching clarinets
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 08:40:31 -0500

I don't know the answer to this question, but I have read that Muehlfeld
changed to a Bb clarinet in the middle section of the Brahms Clarinet
Quintet slow movement, which would obviously be strictly for technical
expexpediency. How would that be, vis-avis the composer's intentions?

Everett Austin

On
Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Daniel A. Paprocki wrote:

> Does anyone know if maybe it was standard practice in Muhlfeld's days to
> have another mouthpiece on your A clarinet, so that to switch clarinets you
> just put the Bb down and picked up the A without switching mouthpieces? I
> know that if I'm doing a solo on mainly Bb or A, I will set up my reed to
> be optimal on that particular clarinet. Maybe that is what was done at
> that time. Also didn't Muhfled use a string ligature (I think I remember
> this from some pictures)? I've played off and on with a string ligature
> and have ended up with a handfull of mouthpiece, reed, and string (not in a
> concert) when switching instruments, so maybe he just had both clarinets
> set with their own mouthpiece and reed. This could be the answer to the
> bad switch in the Brahms 3.
>
> Dan
>
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> Daniel A. Paprocki
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> Malone College
> Kent State University - Stark Campus
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