Klarinet Archive - Posting 000854.txt from 1997/10

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: Looking for Bass Clarinet in A
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:36:16 -0400

BUT... Lou seems to need an A bass going down to written C. May one
suggest, in spite of Dan L.'s past encomia of composers, that this one is
being ignorant and/or perverse???
Roger Shilcock

On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, xxx wrote:

> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 11:36:15 -0700
> From: xxx <hakan@-----.net>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: Re: Looking for Bass Clarinet in A
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> Selmer can make an A Bass-Clarinet for you on special order in African=20
> Blackwood and also in Rosewood. This has a range to low E (or maby=20
> Eb?). Most Bb Basses have a range to either low C or Eb to make the=20
> player able to play what would be the E on an A Bass. Older=20
> Bass-Clarinet scores are often written for a Bass in A, although there=20
> is to my knowledge no evidence that A Basses where common.
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> H=E5kan Lundberg
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