Klarinet Archive - Posting 001148.txt from 1999/01

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: [kl] Abe's Left-Handed Clarinet
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:16:02 -0500

I've put a picture of Abe Galper's left-handed clarinet up on sneezy:
http://www.sneezy.org/avrahm_galper/left-handed.html
Here's the text (from Abe) that is printed on that page:
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A LEFT HANDED CLARINET
I remember when I first picked up my Albert system clarinet I supported
it with the Left hand.
But later, when I couldn't cross the break, I had to reverse the
position.

I've heard about those kinds of clarinets. Even saw a picture, I don't
remember where or when.
Recently there was a catalogue with a pair of clarinets that looked like
they could be left-handed.
But the negative could have turned around.

Here is what Geoffrey Rendall had to say about the Left handed
clarinets:
"It is hardly necessary to observe that for more than 200 years, that is
as soon as the clarinet assumed more than two keys, the upper joint was
fingered by the Left hand, the lower by the Right hand.
There are exceptions to every rule and very occasionally clarinets, even
of elaborate construction, are found with the keys reversed.
The players for whom such instruments are made are known to the French
makers as 'gauchers'.

Well, on my recent trip to Israel, I found one, a Left-handed Albert
system, made by Adler in Germany.
I am enclosing a picture. The one on the right is the "Left".
I put a regular one on the left, so as to compare.

SO THERE IT IS !!

Avrahm Galper

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Avrahm Galper
TONE TECHNIQUE AND STACCATO
THE UPBEAT BAERMANN MELODIC SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS
http://www.sneezy.org/avrahm_galper/index.html

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