Klarinet Archive - Posting 000986.txt from 1998/09

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Bassett
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 04:50:07 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.68
> Subj: [kl] Bassett

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> In a message dated 9/25/98 3:15:46 PM, Tony Pay writes:
>
> <<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. >>
>
> Spoken by one who has played (and recorded) on every period of clarinets out
> there! By the way, when you perform the Mozart on a new instrument, are you
> using your regular A clarinet with an extension?

Tony will, of course, answer for himself, but it so happens that
when he did K. 622 with San Francisco, he was my house guest and
I had occasion to see and inspect the instrument. It was an off
the shelf A basset clarinet by Selmer. Played like a dream!

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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