Klarinet Archive - Posting 000566.txt from 1997/04

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: Baroque Clarinet
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:47:12 -0400

On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, LORI LOVATO wrote:

> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 16:03:03 +0000
> From: LORI LOVATO <LOVATO_L@-----.edu>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Cc: 'Klarinet' <klarinet@-----.us>
> Subject: Baroque Clarinet
>
> Anyone have any ideas on where to purchase a baroque clarinet? (3-keyed,
> pitched at 415 would be nice, but a 5-6 keyed is ok) Perhaps someone
> knows an instrument maker?
> TIA! Lori Lovato,
> Albuquerque, New Mexico (where horse-tails grow wild!) :)
>
Horsetails grow pretty bloody wild here too. ... The classic Dutch Rush
seems to be a different species from the ubiquitous E. arvense - E.
hyemale according to Lord Rob's citation. In England we also have a
relatively rare woodland species with very long stems?/fronds? I don't
know
anything about its abrasive qualities, but no doubt it contains SiO2 just
like other horsetails - or parsely, or just about any grass, etc., etc.
....
Roger Shilcock [Oxford, UK]

   
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