Klarinet Archive - Posting 000505.txt from 2000/02

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] klarinet Digest 11 Feb 2000 09:15:01 -0000 Issue 2038
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:10:39 -0500

Keith concludes his note with the pregnant words "sounded too much like
a soprano clarinet" in reference to some Uebel basset horns.

Who suggested that the basset horns were NOT soprano clarinets??? In
Mozart's Requiem they certainly are. The instruments that double the
female soprano and alto voices are the two basset horns. They never,
never, never double the tenor or bass voices. So since they are
assigned the female lines, one has to question exactly what voice basset
horns are in the choir of instruments.

Many of the instrumentation books call them "also clarinets" or "tenor
clarinets" but I would suggest that they are soprano clarinets in F that
happen to have low notes.

Keith wrote:
>
> Message text written by INTERNET:klarinet@-----.org
> >I had two Selmer, narrow bore instruments for years and they were always
> a problem. But I worked around those problems as best as I could and
> they were quite satisfactory in performance. Never had a serious
> complaint that I could not fix.
> <
>
> Dan
>
> Did you ever try the Uebel basset horns (from the old east Germany, and I
> don't know if they are still around). Narrow bore instruments but
> beautifully made. I had the fortune to play some rented but brand new ones.
>
> Their bores were also narrow in their bass clarinet - also a nice
> instrument, but one professional who had one wondered whether it really
> sounded too much like a soprano clarinet, just an octave lower,
>
> Keith Bowen
>
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