Klarinet Archive - Posting 000877.txt from 2000/02

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] klarinet Digest 11 Feb 2000 09:15:01 -0000 Issue 2038
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:44:53 -0500

On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:34:34 -0500, 100012.1302@-----.com said:

> 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.

Yes, I own both bassethorn and bass clarinet.

Both are excellent instruments, in my view, except that the keywork is a
bit unreliable.

*I'd* say that their bass clarinet sounds more like a bass clarinet than
other bass clarinets do.

But what do I know?

(Another way of putting that would be to say, what does the *other*
'professional' know?-)

Tony
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