Klarinet Archive - Posting 000113.txt from 2000/01

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] The D clarinet
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 07:55:13 -0500

A partial answer could be that military bands use E flats. So, far more E
flat clarinets exist than D clarinets.
Roger S.

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Sam Jones wrote:

> Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 21:12:44 EST
> From: Sam Jones <yighway@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] The D clarinet
>
> Why are D clarinets rare if "the characteristics of a D clarinet are very
> favorable and they tune beautifully". Has anyone reading this list ever used
> the D clarinet in a performance of "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks". If
> so, do you think Strauss purposefully intended this instrument to be used
> instead of the E-flat?
>
>
>
>
> >From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
> >Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> >To: klarinet@-----.org
> >Subject: Re: [kl] The D clarinet
> >Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 15:44:44 -0800
> >
> >
> >
> >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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