Klarinet Archive - Posting 000982.txt from 1998/10

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset Questions
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 19:00:24 -0400

On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Tim Roberts wrote:
> Basset clarinets are pitched in A. What about basset horns? The WW&BW catalog
> says the bore on a basset horn is exactly equal to the bore on an Eb alto. Is
> a basset horn, then, pitched in Eb?

Unless it is referring to a particular brand, the statement about the
bores isn't true, I think. The bore of a basset horn is more comparable
to the bore of a Bb clarinet, where as the Alto's bore is generally a
drawn mean between the Bb and the Bass.

Basset horns are pitched in F, and descend to low C - this is how the
basset clarinet gets its moniker, as it is a clarinet with a written range
equal to that of the basset horn.

J. Shouryu Nohe
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe
Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
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