Klarinet Archive - Posting 000574.txt from 1999/05

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] basset clarinet and K622
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 00:56:31 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.47
> Subj: Re: [kl] basset clarinet and K622

> On Thu, 13 May 1999 18:06:16 -0400, bhausman@-----.com said:
>
> > You've put it all into this paragraph alone! Those of us who, like
> > you, continue to play the Mozart in our own basements on our Bb
> > clarinets, hoping that eventually we will find someone who can hack
> > the transposed piano accompaniment, thank you.
>
> As a young lad, not having an A clarinet, I used to play some of the
> Mozart last movement on my Bb along with Reginald Kell's 78 rpm record
> on our family radiogram. It had an adjustable speed, and I just set it
> so that it would be in tune.
>
> Not really appreciating what I'd done, I had quite an argument with my
> teacher about whether the piece was for Bb or A clarinet. "Well,
> Reginald Kell plays it on the Bb," I said. "I know, because I can play
> along with the record!"
>
> (It must have been a bit fast, of course:-)

This anecdote is absolutely remarkable. I used to do the same thing
but without an adjustable turntable. I simple pulled the clarinet
out at every conceivable joint until the intonation would have
frightened the Medusa. Then I played it over and over and over.

As I remember, the 78 rpm disks were in a box that had a little wooden
peg that went through the record holes. Never saw another like it.

Years later I wanted to tell Kell this when I met him at a party
in Monterey. He refused to talk about clarinets or clarinet playing
and kept changing the subject. He had become very bitter.

>
> Tony
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