Klarinet Archive - Posting 000923.txt from 1997/10

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Looking for Bass Clarinet in A
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 20:05:50 -0400

At 10:27 AM 10/23/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>
>On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, ROBERT HOWE wrote:
>
>>
>> Roger Garrett wrote: they DID make bass clarinets with two octave
>> > keys: one to use through about E, and the other to go beyond. It is
easy
>> > to see why this system never won any prizes for ergonomic design! Modern
>> > instruments make this switch automatically, freeing bass clarinet players
>> > from the onerous task of growing two left thumbs.
>>
>
>Hey, hold it folks.....I did NOT write the above quote....someone has
>mistakenly assigned it to me.....please....will the real author step
>forward??? I never use the word "onerous".......or "ergonomic" for that
>matter.....although I understand them....
>
>Roger Garrett
>
I already said it once, but I will again: I am the one who wrote it. It
was in a REPLY to one of your posts.

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