Klarinet Archive - Posting 000064.txt from 1998/09

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Children and Clarinet Playing
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 21:26:04 -0400

At 10:30 AM 9/2/98 -0400, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
>I was surprised when I went into a music store in my work neighborhood and
>saw that the nameless They are still manufacturing the Flute-o-phone, the
>"instrument" that I learned to play when I was being given musical aptitude
>tests in the 1st or 2nd grade, somewhere around 1951. Those and the
>infamous Tonette. I don't remember what they sounded like.
>
Yes, they are still available, but they used to make them better. I still
have mine (c. 1960). It is basically a recorder designed not to blow an
octave.

>It would not surprise me to find that Peter Schickele composed baroquey
>music for these interesting starter instruments.
>
I have a very bad tape copy of a Boston Symphony Pension Fund Concert (c.
1970) featuring Prof. Schickele and the music of P.D.Q Bach. It includes
the "Gross Concerto for Diverse Flutes, Two Trumpets, and Strings" (S. -2).
In the introduction, it is noted that, while very unusual in 18th-century
works, the two plastic Tonettes are used CONTRAPUNTALLY!

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