Klarinet Archive - Posting 000497.txt from 1997/09

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: Clefs, and Brass
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 04:19:11 -0400

This is not so much a matter of a family of instruments as of a standard
notation system.
Roger Shilcock

On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Virginia Scarfino wrote:

> Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 18:10:07 -0400
> From: Virginia Scarfino <scarfinv@-----.net>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: "Klarinet Listserv (E-mail)" <klarinet@-----.us>
> Subject: Re: Clefs, and Brass
>
> 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
>
>