Klarinet Archive - Posting 000965.txt from 1998/09

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset clarinet lower joint
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 14:33:48 -0400

On Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:40:41 -0500 (CDT), rgarrett@-----.edu said:

> On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Tony Pay wrote:
>
> > With regard to using the normal A top joint with the basset bottom
> > joint, I thought he said that someone else found their normal A
> > joint worked better? And that that person knew other people who
> > found so too?
>
> At the ClarinetFest, I tried the joint on my A.....didn't work. The
> upper joint is different. Perhaps there are a couple of different
> ones out there.......Francois told me it would not work.....but
> perhaps I misheard him......
>
> You there Francois?

Ah well, if you tried it, then you really do know, for you, and in the
most important way.

Exactly *how* didn't it work, though, Roger? Intonation? Response? Or
just plain non-fitting-together?

Of course, every instrument has its defects, and sometimes a player
finds it worth putting up with some non-workability in one area, and
getting round it, for the sake of greater workability in another. Could
this be one of those cases, for the other players?

(Playing on period instruments is another case that springs readily to
mind:-)

Tony
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