Klarinet Archive - Posting 001048.txt from 2000/01

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] horn
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 14:12:59 -0500

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Rien Stein wrote:

> Why do you American guys always speak of a horn where obviously a clarinet
> is meant? To me a horn is such a round-wound brass instrument with valves.
>
> Would anybody on this list please be so kind, and tell me?

Obviously, it's short for BASSETT horn, which is what all directors REALLY
wish their clarinetters were, but are also aware that we is po'.

J. Shouryu Nohe
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe
Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
"If I wanted a 'job,' I'd have gone music ED, thank you very much!"

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