Klarinet Archive - Posting 000475.txt from 1999/09

From: "Roderick Ellem" <clariplayer@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [kl] Low Eb Key
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 20:05:38 -0400

The clarinet in the picture sound like what I know a a "full Boehm" system.
It is in Bb but just has the extra keys (not only the lower Eb but also a
ring on the c/g hole on the upper joint. I played one only last weekend
trying it out for one of my students. This particuler instrument was a
Selmer Paris series 9. Played pretty well. I think all the major companies
have made them at some stage though I couldn't be absolutly certain.
All the best
Rod
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Chan <Jeff.Chan@-----.com>
Date: Friday, 17 September 1999 2:28
Subject: RE: [kl] Low Eb Key

>Don,
>
>I would not presume that a clarinet with a low E-flat key is a B-flat
>clarinet. I have seen A clarinets with that key, and I own a C clarinet
>with that key.
>
>Jeff Chan
>jeff.chan@-----.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Don Mayer [mailto:dmayer@-----.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 11:09 PM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: [kl] Low Eb Key
>
>
>I would appreciate comments from the group on this. I have seen pictures of
>a soprano clarinet with a low Eb key. I have always presumed that this
>option was intended to allow a clarinettist playing a Bb instrument to
>transpose parts written for an A clarinet, and which would therefore
>require a low Eb to play a written E.
>
>Is this perception correct? Putting it another way, can I presume from the
>presence of this key that the clarinet is pitched in Bb?
>
>Your comments are appreciated and invited.
>
>Regards,
>
>Don Mayer
>
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