Klarinet Archive - Posting 000261.txt from 1998/10

From: <peter.stoll@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] simple question
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 15:00:12 -0400

The bass clarinetist of the Toronto Symphony, David Bourque, has a bass
clarinet in A that I think he got from our own Dan Leeson, who I seem to
remember wrote an article about this horn in a past Clarinet magazine
(one point was that you can then take awkward passages on the Bb bass
over to the A, just as many symphonic soprano clarinetists do).

Peter Stoll
Instructor, Univ.of Toronto

On Mon, 5 Oct 1998 GrabnerWG@-----.com wrote:

> A bass clarinet in A absolutely did exist. Alfred Zetzer, for years bass
> clarinetist in the Cleveland Orchestra, had one. He let me play on it once in
> a lesson. I don't know if he ever played it in the orchestra.
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