Klarinet Archive - Posting 001244.txt from 1997/08

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: Low E flat
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 01:33:03 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.04
> Subj: Low E flat

> Does anyone know of a B b clarinet that has an E flat as its lowest note?
> (not including Bass clarinet, of course).

Elisabeth, at one time I had three clarinets that played to low
E-flat. I still have two of them, one of which is in B-flat and
the other in A. The one I sold was in E-flat.

For your information, the Peter and the Wolf clarinet solo is for a
B-flat clarinet with an extension to low E-flat. It is almost
always played on an A in the west, but in Russia where the low
E-flat is common, it is played on a B-flat instrument.

In Italy, amongst poor students, only one clarinet was affordable
and it was generally a B-flat instrument with the low E-flat
so that transposition of A clarinet parts was possible, though
Benny Amato at the Met always played only an A and transposed
everything on that.

Is such an instrument unheard of in Tasmania?

>
> Elisabeth Kelvin
> Lecturer of Clarinet
> Co-ord. Woodwind, Brass & Percussion
> Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music
> University of Tasmania
> Ph: (03) 6226 7345
> Fax: (03) 6226 7318
> email: E.Kelvin@-----.au
>
>
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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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