Klarinet Archive - Posting 001089.txt from 1997/10

From: ROBERT HOWE <arehow@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Looking for Bass Clarinet in A
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 07:57:00 -0500

Whew, here's some real evidence!! Is this clarinet in the form of a
modern bass, or is it a bassoon-shaped bass clarinet like the Catlins
from Hartford CT, and the one at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts?

RObert Howe

Nick Shackleton wrote:
>
> Oddly enough the only pre-revolution Russian clarinet I own is a bass to low
> C by Shediva of Odessa on the Black Sea (he was originally Czech but worked
> in Odessa). It is in Bb but I feel pretty confident that they would have
> been available in A in the same model. German world basses in A are much
> commoner than Boehm Sytem basses in A. I have an A bass made by Heckel that
> goes to low Eflat. There is a bass in A on display in the museum in Berlin
> but I forget what the lowest note is.
> Nick
> >Given the evidence from Rimsky, maybe the A clarinet to low C *was* to be
> >found at some period in Russia. What does anyone know about Russian
> >woodwind? Waas there a "school" of woodwind manufacture in
> >pre-Revolutionary Russia?
> >Roger Shilcock

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