Klarinet Archive - Posting 000657.txt from 1999/05

From: Sfdr@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Poor Man's A Clarinet
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 03:34:23 -0400

This technique was used quite a bit during the Great Depression. It was
refereed to as the poor man's A clarinet. Some players would take the "A"
string of a cello or String Bass and hook the end loop over the register tube
of the Bb clarinet. The string would hang out of the bell too. The decreased
bore size would cause the Clarinet pitch to drop 1/2 step in order to play
the A clarinet music. Try it you will be amazed.

Alvin Swiney

Affordable Music Co.

P. O. Box 4245

Virginia Beach, VA 23454

757-412-2160 fax 412-2158

E mail sfdr@-----.com

In a message dated 5/14/99 8:09:26 PM EST, dodgshun@-----.nz writes:

<< 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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