Klarinet Archive - Posting 000806.txt from 1998/09

From: Simon_Aldrich@-----.ca (Simon Aldrich)
Subj: [kl] Basset clarinet lower joint
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 16:22:59 -0400

I am playing the Mozart Concerto seven times this year and I am borrowing
someone's RC Prestige basset clarinet for the performances.
The owner told me the top joint wasn't very good and when he played either
the concerto or the quintet he used his own top joint. He mentioned that he
knows other people who do the same thing with their basset clarinets (ie they
use the top joint of their regular A clarinet with the bottom joint of their
basset clarinet).

My question is therefore: Is it possible to buy just the lower joint of a
basset
clarinet? If not, it would seem that there is a market for this. If the
chances
are good that one might prefer one's own A clarinet top joint why not just
buy the lower joint? Why pay all that money for only the lower half?

By the way, there are reasons other than the obvious ones that one might not
like the top joint of a basset clarinet. Their are big differences in some of
the
mechanisms. For example this basset clarinet has two "register" keys - one
for the throat Bb and another for the second register.

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Simon Aldrich

Principal Clarinet - l'Orchestre de l'Opera de Montreal
Principal Clarinet - l'Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal
Nouvel Ensemble Moderne
Quintet Pentaedre
Les Vents de Montreal

tel/fax: (514) 843-7550
simona@-----.org

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