Klarinet Archive - Posting 001099.txt from 1999/12

From: klara <klahall@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] The D clarinet
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 13:15:58 -0500

I have heard of, but not heard a sopranino clarinet in Ab--told me by a
reliable directer who had seen & heard it in Italian band.

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 15:44:44 -0800 Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
writes:
>
>Sam Jones wrote:
>>
>> I was recently looking at a study score for "Till Eulenspiegel's
>Merry
>> Pranks" by Strauss. I noticed a part for the D Clarinet. I've never
>played
>> this piece, but I wondered why Srtauss requests a D clarinet and not
>an E
>> flat clarinet. What other orchestral pieces call for the D clarinet?
>Where
>> do you purchase a d clarinet? What are the intonation tendencies
>compared
>> with the e flat clarinet?
>
>Sam, there are many kinds of clarinets that you may not have heard of
>and which, therefore, are foreign to you. That seems to be the case
>for the clarinet in D. Strauss, as far as I know, left no information
>about why he chose this instrument as contrasted with any other.
>The part in Till is generally played on an E-flat clarinet only
>because
>D clarinets are rare, though you can purchase one in a New York
>minute if you wish. There are also parts for clarinet in B-natural,
>C, A-flat, and G and you should not presume, when you see one,
>that some terrible mistake has been made.
>
>The characteristics of a D clarinet are very favorable and they tune
>beautifully if you get a good one.
>
>Why are you surprised by all of this?
>
>
>Dan Leeson
>leeson0@-----.net
>
>
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