Klarinet Archive - Posting 000928.txt from 2000/02

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] klarinet Digest 24 Feb 2000 09:15:01 -0000 Issue 2064
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 04:43:45 -0500

There is a player in Edinburgh - James Foley, I think is his name - who
has (or had) an Uebel bass.
Roger Shilcock

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Keith wrote:

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