Klarinet Archive - Posting 001003.txt from 1998/10

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset Questions
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 04:16:42 -0400

There used to be large-bore F clarinets going down to low written E only
-- in this country, they were known as "tenor clarinets", bizarrely
enough.
(Or so I'm told - I've never seen one).
E flat altos have also been made going down to low C.
Roger Shilcock

On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Dee D. Hays wrote:

> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:20:13 -0500
> From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet <klarinet@-----.org>
> Subject: Re: [kl] Basset Questions
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
> To: klarinet@-----.org>
> Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998 11:45 AM
> Subject: [kl] Basset Questions
>
>
> >... basset horn is exactly equal to the bore on an Eb alto. Is
> >a basset horn, then, pitched in Eb?
>
>
> The key is more determined by the length than the bore (tho a ratio of these
> does enter in a little bit). While I don't have my references available at
> this moment, I belief that the basset horn is pitched in F.
>
> Dee Hays
> Canton, SD
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