Klarinet Archive - Posting 001266.txt from 1998/07

From: Anne Bell <bell@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart and the right clarinet
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 14:58:21 -0400

At 06:38 AM 7/29/98 EDT, Dan Leeson wrote:
>
>I do not follow this note. Both basset horn and basset clarinet had
>all semitones from low e down to low c, so why does rjs suggest
>that bassethorns generally did not have them?
>

In Colin Lawson's book he indicated that the first basset clarinets (basset
horns I can't attest to) did not have all the semitones down to C but
rather E,(Eb?), D and C. I don't have the book in front of me and can't
cite his sources but he does correlate the addition of keys with their
usage by Mozart.

Pedistool (revisited): pedo- greek, a child; stol Old english, a seat
Def.1 a booster seat 2 Metaphorically speaking that stage in life where the
secrets of the universe are revealed and one's parents are idiots. 3
[Slang] a potty chair.

Anne
Anne Bell
bell@-----.net

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