Klarinet Archive - Posting 000792.txt from 1997/12

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: The Morales/Clemence of Titus question
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 14:07:44 -0500

Gosh, I don't see the word "horn" anywhere in the post you quoted
Dan......so, I don't understand your note......are you suggesting that the
word basset is implying basset horn? Or, is it possible that the note
implied basset clarinet?

Roger Garrett
IWU

On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> > From: MX%"klarinet@-----.78
> > Subj: Re: The Morales/Clemence of Titus question
>
> > I just E-mailed Ricardo and should soon get an answer of why he or his
> > conductor performed on the normal Bb instead of the basset.
>
> I don't understand this note. The work cannot be done effectively
> on the basset horn (if this is what the writer meant), and no one
> was suggesting that this was a way to get around the impediment of
> not having a basset clarinet in B-flat.
>
> Was the note's author mixing up basset horn and basset clarinet?
>
>
>
> =======================================
> Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
> Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
> leeson@-----.edu
> =======================================
>