Klarinet Archive - Posting 000532.txt from 1997/01

From: Martin PERGLER <pergler@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: KLARINET Digest - 23 Jan 1997 to 24 Jan 1997
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:11:33 -0500

Dan Leeson asks:
>The term "matched pair" is used as if everyone in the world knows
>what is being spoken of.
>
>All right. I'll volunteer. I don't know what this term means other
>than in the most general sense.
>
>What is a matched pair of instruments? (Careful. I have a weapon!)

What I heard at a music camp a few years ago:
A "matched pair" of Bb/A clarinets is a pair of clarinets made by two
different makers, bought 20 years apart on opposite ends of the world,
which, when used with a barrel (barrels? mouthpieces?) bought for yet
another clarinet, have the same resistance and can use all the same
fingerings in the altissimo and throat registers. At any given moment,
however, one or the other is in need of repair or adjustment for this to
remain true.

Martin

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Martin Pergler pergler@-----.edu
Grad student, Mathematics http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~pergler
Univ. of Chicago