Klarinet Archive - Posting 000281.txt from 1998/09

From: merlinw@-----.ca
Subj: [kl] curved clarinets
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 23:12:02 -0400

On 09/08/98 17:24:51 you wrote:

>I suspect that we clarinetists (getting back to the focus of this mailing
>list) would experience the same type of effect if we could play a straight
>bass clarinet or a curved soprano clarinet. (Anybody make such a beast?)

At one time, Linton made a Bb soprano clarinet with an upturned metal bell. IIRC, it was called a "Cor de Linton".

Merlin Williams
merlinw@-----.ca
http://www.netcom.ca/~merlinw
(A member of the Sax Ring!)

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