Klarinet Archive - Posting 000296.txt from 1998/09

From: "Jack Silver" <jsilver@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Straight Saxes: Bolero
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 09:49:17 -0400

Benny "Moten"? KC. Forerunner of Basie Band?

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> From: ROBERT HOWE <arehow@-----.net>
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Re: Straight Saxes: Bolero
> Date: Tuesday, September 08, 1998 10:18 PM
>
> A few clarifications on this topic, which has seen a lot of opinion
> recently:
> 1. Straight soprano Saxes in C are archaic since the depression.
> 2. Straight soprano Saxes in Bb are standard today.
> 3. The straight baritone Sax that Benny Moughton played extended to
> (concert) Db below the bass staff; modern baris go to C. A Heckelphone
> goes to A in the bass staff and a bass oboe, to B.
> 4. Ravel wrote Bolero for sopranino Sax in F, which is a dream, no
> specimens are known; soprano in Bb, to cover a few notes that the
> sopranino could not; and tenor in Bb, not C. The use of a sopranino was
> only because Ravel was uncertain about the top note of the Bb soprano,
> which is generally used today to play the second melody solo in
> question. I have done so myself, having changed from playing the same
> solo on tenor Sax a few bars earlier, and the first melody solo on oboe
> d'amore a few bars before that. What a gas!
>
> Hope this clarifies.
>
> Robert Howe
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