Klarinet Archive - Posting 000995.txt from 1998/10

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset Questions
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 00:17:00 -0400

I've just started reading this thread. I may have missed an early
description nearer to the beginning, but several of Dan's and Roger's posts
of today mention that the basset horn is pitched in F and extends to low C.
A couple of centuries ago (so it seems) back in the 1970's I played a couple
of Mozart Serenade concerts with a Philadelphia freelance group in which we
played basset horns borrowed from Curtis Institute. Both were Buffets and
were every bit as temperamental as the current discussion makes them seem.
Only one of them, though, had the low C extension. The other, if memory
serves me correctly, went to low E or maybe Eb. Was this one an anomaly? Is
the extension only a standard today, or was it always?

Karl Krelove

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