Klarinet Archive - Posting 000293.txt from 1999/05

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] C Clarinets (was Orchestral Rep Question)
Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 17:43:42 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.33
> Subj: Re: [kl] C Clarinets (was Orchestral Rep Question)

> O.K., but why, then, do almost no prominent american orchestral clarinetists
> use C or D clarinets?
>
> John

Perhaps they are afraid that the body of clarinetists will be scornful
of their inability to transpose.

And since when has the action of some or even many determined what is
the technically correct thing to do? The question you posed could be
posed by anyone at the beginning of a technology or political direction
as evidence that that technology or direction is of no value.

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