Klarinet Archive - Posting 000363.txt from 1999/05

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Subj: Re: [kl] High Soprano Clarinets
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 13:10:55 -0400

Francis Firth wrote:
>
> There have been a number of high piccolo and sopranino clarinets.
> Bb, A, Ab, G and F.
> The octave Bb and A clarinets can still be bought from Orsi in Milan and I
> think that they are made to order.
> I know of no scores requiring them and they were probably made for military
> use. I have seen a metal Bb octave clarinet made by Kalison (better known
> for modern brass instruments such as Tubas) and when I wrote to them they
> confirmed that they made such clarinets in the 1950s for export to South

You can also see high Bb clarinet (1860-1870?) in Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York.

Feodor

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