Klarinet Archive - Posting 000857.txt from 1997/10

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Looking for Bass Clarinet in A
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:36:19 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.97
> Subj: Re: Looking for Bass Clarinet in A

> 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
>

When I bought my A bass, I explicitly asked Selmer if they would
build one for in descending to low C and their answer was that
they would not do so. No reason was given.

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> On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, xxx wrote:
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> > 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
> >
> > Selmer can make an A Bass-Clarinet for you on special order in African
> > Blackwood and also in Rosewood. This has a range to low E (or maby
> > Eb?). Most Bb Basses have a range to either low C or Eb to make the
> > player able to play what would be the E on an A Bass. Older
> > Bass-Clarinet scores are often written for a Bass in A, although there
> > is to my knowledge no evidence that A Basses where common.
> >
> > Hekan Lundberg
> >
>
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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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