Klarinet Archive - Posting 000039.txt from 1998/02

From: akerblom@-----.se (Familjen Akerblom)
Subj: Re: klarinet-digest V1 #625
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:28:45 -0500

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I@-----. I=B4m a professional saxplayer but also sometiomes=
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on clarinet. The thing is that I have got a turkish metal clarinet in g. A=
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minor third under a regular Bb clarinet. On the bell is written "R.KOR SOL=
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BURSA".
The fingering system is much simpler than a common clarinet but it doesn=B4t=
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seem to be well suited to play in all keys. Not to me anyway.
Can this be the Albert system?
I also have some problems to play in tune but that might be so because of=20
that I don@-----.
Otherwise this instrument is very nice, as long as you stay in the suitable=
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keys.
I use it for swedish folklore music wich contains a lot of quarter tones. It=
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is much easier to do these things on this one than on the sax or the regular=
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Clarinet.
That@-----.
Do anyone know about this instrument?

ha de bra
jonas