Klarinet Archive - Posting 000300.txt from 1999/05

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] A-flat high soprano clarinet?
Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 17:43:49 -0400

The threads on the C clarinet and timbres of different clarinets interests me
a lot, and makes me wonder about the A-flat "high soprano clarinet" I saw
advertised in the 1932 Selmer catalog. I hadn't realized anything higher
than the eefer was manufactured as late as the 1930s. The Ab can't have been
a very popular instrument, since Selmer didn't illustrate it, although all
the other clarinets are illustrated with the exception of the BBb contrabass
(a monster, below the Eb contrabass). The 1932 Selmer Ab was available in
the Master Model (professional, Selmer's top of the line at the time). It's
unclear to me whether it may also have been offered as a Bundy (intermediate)
and/or Barbier (student) clarinet. Has anyone ever played an Ab soprano?
I'm afaid I know what it would sound like if I played it (every rabid rat in
the neighborhood would come running to mama), but what's it sound like when
you play it?

Lelia
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