Klarinet Archive - Posting 000654.txt from 1999/05

From: "Dodgshun family" <dodgshun@-----.nz>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: Mozart on Bb Clarinet
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 00:34:00 -0400

>> 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

>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...
>
Works better if you drop a piece of string from the barrel/mpiece joint down
and out the bell, then pull the joints out! The string seems to make the
pitch drop about a quarter of a tone, so you don't need to pull out as far!
I never tried it with two strings to see if that dropped it a
semitone......I've also never tried it on bass clarinet (this is something
I'm going to have to investigate!).

Anna

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