Klarinet Archive - Posting 000606.txt from 1999/05

From: fsheim@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] re: Mozart on Bb Clarinet
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 08:39:34 -0400

At 08:01 AM 5/14/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 23:36:54 +0100
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
>Subject: Re: [kl] basset clarinet and K622
>Message-ID: <19990513.233654.84@-----.uk>
>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:-)
>Tony
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>I would say that most of us (99%) have at one time early in our Clarinet
>playing history have pulled out the Mouthpiece, Barrel, Center Joint, and
Bell
>almost to the point of "falling apart", and tried to play The Mozart Concerto
>on Bb with an A recording. I know I did ;) It almost works...
>
>David Blumberg
>playit@-----.com
>http://www.mytempo.com
>---------------------------------------------------
I did too! But talk about TERRIBLE results!!

Fred (fsheim@-----.com)

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