Klarinet Archive - Posting 000806.txt from 1999/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Metal Clarinets
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:05:07 -0400

At 10:08 AM 8/26/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>Just food for thought. Let's list all of the great recordings made on metal
>clarinets in the last fifty years:
>
Of course, the "great" players could afford better axes. But many metal
clarinets were played by professionals, at least as doubling instruments,
in the 1920's and 30's. You see them in old photographs of the early dance
orchestras and Big Bands all the time. When they got the dough, of course
their owners upgraded. But the horns WERE playable, and appear on many
"great" recordings, even if not in the featured role. My own metal
clarinet, a Walter Mueller "Empire State," plays at least as well in tune
as my old Rene Dumont wood clarinet.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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