Klarinet Archive - Posting 000921.txt from 2000/02

From: Keith <100012.1302@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] klarinet Digest 24 Feb 2000 09:15:01 -0000 Issue 2064
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 22:12:35 -0500

<Tony Pay, on Uebel instruments>
>
>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?-)
<

Sadly, I hear that they have stopped making Boehm instruments entirely.

The other pro was Leslie Schatzberger, whom you must know. But this was
an off-the-cuff remark about 20 years ago, and she may have different
views now, so I wouldn't want to hold her to them. I loved her bass and
offered to buy it if she decided to change, but she never got back to me
so I guess she still likes it! 'Offered' is wrong, 'begged' would be more=

accurate.

I feel that too many bass clarinets sound too much like saxophones in
the upper register. Maybe it's just the way I blow... but in the absence =
of
Uebel, I chose the Buffet sound to the Selmer when I changed bass
recently.

Keith Bowen

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