Klarinet Archive - Posting 000869.txt from 1997/10

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Looking for Bass Clarinet in A
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:36:31 -0400

I would suggest that an A bass clarinet without the C extension would be a
great waste of money.......many of the parts calling for A Bass Clarinet
ask for the clarinetist to drop below a low Eb.

Roger Garrett

On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> > 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
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> 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
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> > > Selmer can make an A Bass-Clarinet for you on special order in Africa=
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> > > 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=
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> > > 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 ther=
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> > > is to my knowledge no evidence that A Basses where common.
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> > > H=E5kan Lundberg
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> Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
> Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
> leeson@-----.edu
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