Klarinet Archive - Posting 000234.txt from 1997/05

From: Jrykorten@-----.com
Subj: Re: Step 2 of n - Dan Leeson
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 10:09:02 -0400

In a message dated 97-05-07 18:40:46 EDT, Ed Lacy writes:

<<
I think I would predict that your central thesis might be challenged on
the flute list. It seems to me that quite a few players of period
instruments feel that rather than being more difficult on older
instruments, the music of those eras is actually more easily managed on
flutes (or clarinets, I suppose) which were contemporary with the music
itself. Naturally, this might relate to the fact that composers had taken
into account the technical limitations and requirements of existing
instruments.

Ed Lacy
>>

I was reading Dan's piece thinking exactly the same thing... "Are there
precedents on the Recorder?" Why don't we see recorders in C, Bb, A etc.

But Ed, can we compare the Flute which overblows an octave, not a twelfth, to
the clarinet and the accompanying fingering changes that accompany register
break slurs etc? Maybe this is why period flutes are still usable?

Jerry Korten
NYC