Klarinet Archive - Posting 000554.txt from 1999/05

From: "Jay Webler" <webler@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] basset clarinet and K622
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 17:17:02 -0400

>
>I agree that it's *best* to play music on original instruments when possible,
>but I hope teachers won't banish a composer as important as Mozart from
>clarinet students' repertories when the kids can't afford basset clarinets.
>Now I play Baroque and early classical music on my clarinets and on
>saxophones, too, even though the saxes were invented nearly a century after
>Bach and Scarlatti died. I'd love to find a good used (cheap!) clarinet in
>A, or better yet, a basset, but in the meantime, I've also been working on
>the Mozart concerto, on a Bb clarinet. I'd use a kazoo if that were all I
>could get. The cat doesn't complain and as an irresponsible amateur, I don't
>have to give a flying fandango if anybody else doesn't like the idea. It's a
>big world with room enough for a lot of approaches. As long as a substantial
>number of people remain nobly committed to historically correct performance
>(however that's defined from one generation to the next), Mozart can survive
>a few anachronisms from the rest of us.
>
>Lelia
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ditto!! But I'm sure the cat would complain if you used a Kazoo.

Jay Webler
Jay's Clarient and Percussion

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