Klarinet Archive - Posting 001043.txt from 1998/12

From: Gary Van Cott<Gary@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset horn vs. basset clarinet
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 23:46:49 -0500

These statements are really not correct. Here is the Readers Digest
version, Dan Leeson will probably provide more details.

The basset horn is pitched in F (below the range of soprano clarinets and
just above the alto clarinet). Many of the recently manufactured
instruments have a bore size similar to an alto clarinet, which some claim
does not make them a true basset horn. "Traditional" basset horns had a
bore size similar to a soprano clarinet, which gives them a unique sound,
but (I have read on the klarinet list) makes them difficult to play. The
range of the basset horn extends down to low C.

The term "basset clarinet" generally refers to an A clarinet with a range
down to low C. However, there is at least one opera that calls for a
basset clarinet in Bb. So it might be proper to say that a basset clarinet
is a soprano clarinet with a range extended below Eb.

Gary
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Luigi Montanez <luigenius@-----.com> on 12/28/98 09:01:25 AM
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Subject: Re: [kl] Basset horn vs. basset clarinet

A basset horn is similar to an alto clarinet, although I'm not so sure
what it's pitched at. A basset clarinet is just another name for an A
clarinet.

---Joe Turpin <ajturpin@-----.us> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am relatively new to the list and have been "lurking" and
absorbing the
> good bits of information that get dropped here. I am a bassoonist
in love
> with the clarinet sound and constantly work toward its subtlety of
dynamic
> and articulation.
>
> So, the reason I'm posting is to ask:
> What is the difference between a basset clarinet and a basset horn?
>
> Perhaps regional like the curtal and dulzian; one being from England
the
> other from Germany, but are of the very similar design.
>
> Thanks in advance for all replies and flames:-)
>
> Yours,
> Joe Turpin
> SUNY=Stony Brook
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
> To: klarinet@-----.org>
> Date: Sunday, December 27, 1998 1:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [kl]Shrifin Recording
>
>
> >From: Jenn D <jsdreis@-----.com>
> >>It's neat that he
> >>actually used his form of a bassett horn instead of a regular 'A'
> >>clarient.
> >
> >
> >Just a little note. It was a basset clarinet, not basset horn, that
was
> >used. It's becoming more common for this instrument to be used for
the
> >Mozart Concerto.
> >
> >I have this recording and enjoy it.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >----
> >Mark Charette@-----.org
> >Webmaster, http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet
> >All-around good guy and devil-may-care flying fool.
> >"There can be no freedom without discipline." - Nadia Boulanger
> >
> >
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