Klarinet Archive - Posting 000219.txt from 1997/10

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: Bass Clarinet...clefs...transposition!
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 13:55:00 -0400

Interesting! I've read Berlioz's memoirs, I don't remeber any mention of
the bass clarinet - thiugh there's lots of stuff deploring the lack of
availability of decent really *low* brass intrument I suppose this bass in
C was an early Saxe instrument. Does anyone who knows about Saxe know
whether he envisaged the B flat bass clarinet as a military
instrument?
Roger Shilcock

On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, ROBERT HOWE wrote:

> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 23:06:32 -0500
> From: ROBERT HOWE <arehow@-----.net>
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: Re: Bass Clarinet...clefs...transposition!
>
> There was a C bass clarinet. One of the Berlioz overtures, either Les
> Corsairs or Benvenuto Cellini, has a brief part for bass clarinet in C,
> doubled by the econd clarinet. THe amazing Italain bass clarinet carved
> out of a curved log that is in the collection in the Boston MFA and many
> American bass clarinets from the early 19th century were all in C.
>
> Robert Howe
>