Klarinet Archive - Posting 000752.txt from 1997/10

From: ROBERT HOWE <arehow@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [Fwd: Re: Throat tones]
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 19:17:02 -0400

Did I mention that I have a selmer 9 clarinet with a similar mechanism,
and two McIntyres, which are built without throat keys? Bb is GREAT on
all of them.. I don't understand why clarinet players accept this
pathetic note. A simple technical solution would save SO much voicing
trouble. Look at oboes--our F sucks, so makers added the left hand F
(in 1908). Voila!!, now it's the best note on the horn.

Robert Howe

Gary_VanCott@-----.com wrote:
>
> Gary VanCott=NHIN
> 10/16/97 07:28 PM
> I believe the Rossi clarinet has a Bb mechanism similar to a bass clarinet,
> to solve this problem.
>
> Gary
> Las Vegas, NV
>
> bhausman @-----.com on 10/16/97 04:28:52 PM
>
> Please respond to klarinet@-----.us
>
> To: klarinet @-----.us
> cc: (bcc: Gary VanCott/NHIN)
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Throat tones]
>
> At 12:17 PM 10/16/97 -0500, Roger Garrett wrote:
> >
> >As stated previously, this is not an easy fingering to get to, certainly
> >not chromatically. I avoid the fingering because on the horns
> >currently being built by Yamaha, Leblanc, Selmer, and Buffet (some
> >exceptions always), the fingering is flat in pitch.
> >
> Does this mean the manufacturers think their throat Bb's are so good now we
> don't NEED the alternate fingering? :-)
>
> _
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