Klarinet Archive - Posting 000563.txt from 2000/02

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset horn sound
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 13:09:35 -0500

Thank you Keith, I have made several phone calls and I think that the
contract on you has been recinded but one is never sure about this sort
of thing. Hit men are notoriously private and hard to contact. But I
think that you will probably be OK. If asked by someone, say that you
play only the accordion. And stay out of dark places.

Keith wrote:
>
> <snip from Dan Leeson>
>
> >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.
>
> No argument, Dan, I agree with you. My comment referred to the BASS
> not basset horns from Uebel, and it was a quote from someone else,
> not my own opinion. She was expressing it as a consideration to
> be discussed, rather than a conclusion. Sorry I did not express it more
> clearly. I was strongly tempted to steal that Uebel bass, anyway!
>
> Does anyone know if Uebel still exists?
>
> Keith Bowen
>
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