Klarinet Archive - Posting 000394.txt from 2000/01

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Old Style Clarinets
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 04:16:11 -0500

I've noticed this difference in tone quality on the bottom notes, too,
though. Hasn't anyone else?
Roger S.

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Daniel Leeson wrote:

> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:38:06 -0800
> From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Old Style Clarinets
>
>
>
> LeliaLoban@-----.com wrote:
> >
> > But I've got a question, too, specifically
> > about the modern basset clarinet replicas with only two or three keys. > I've never played one. Do those flat, rectangular keys seal > imperfectly?
>
> "snip"
>
> There are two issues involved in Lelia's note. One has to
> do with her suggestion that there might be some inherent
> problem with contemporary basset clarinets because she
> senses a color change on the lowest notes. I address that
> as best as I can with the statement that there is no known
> inherent acoustical flaw with those notes on contemporary
> basset clarinets. That does not mean that she did not hear
> what she suggests she heard. Only that the problem she
> describes may be limited exclusively to the instrument that
> was being played.
>
> The second issue deals with a discussion we had on this list
> about two years ago when I brought up the fact that a
> picture of Stadler's basset clarinet had been found and it
> showed a bell several orders of magnitude different from
> those that assumed by all contemporary basset clarinet
> makers. Stadler's bell was shaped like that of an English
> horn whereas contemporary basset horns have bells like
> traditional clarinets. And if any acoustical problem does
> exist (as Lelia hypothesizes) this might account for it,
> though I state again that I have no knowledge that her
> observation is pervasive.
>
> Dan Leeson
>
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