Klarinet Archive - Posting 000374.txt from 2000/01

From: "Doug Sears" <dsears@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Old Style Clarinets
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:05:16 -0500

Kevin Fay (LCA) <kevinfay@-----.com> asks questions about playing period
clarinets that I've been thinking about asking for some time. Tony Pay has made
comments occasionally that mention difficulties to be overcome, and I've been
wondering if there also might be some ways that the clarinets of Mozart's and
Beethoven's times might have been easier to play. Arthur Benade wrote, "many of
the clarinets before about 1820 ... were able, in a relatively easy way, to
perform the tremendous leaps and bounds that were common in the lighter-weight
music of the time." (Benade's NX Clarinet: Its Genesis, The Clarinet, Feb.-Mar.
1994). Can players of early clarinets confirm this claim?

--Doug
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Doug Sears dsears@-----.org/~dsears

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