Klarinet Archive - Posting 000318.txt from 1997/09

From: Virginia Scarfino <scarfinv@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Clefs, and Brass
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 19:05:46 -0400

In my years of playing in a community band, there was brass player who
mentioned to me that he learned to play a family of brass instruments
commonly found in British Brass bands - I know very little about the
instrumentation, other than that there were many different sizes of
instruments, but they were taught to use same fingerings on all of them -
in other words Bb horn fingerings. This enabled the players to switch from
instrument to instrument fairly easily. If I'm not mistaken, this is the
underlying reason why you see both Bass Cleff parts, and Treble Cleff parts
for Euphonium or Baritone parts - it depends which set of "fingerings" you
were taught!

Ginny Scarfino
Scarfinv@-----.net
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada