Klarinet Archive - Posting 000025.txt from 2000/03

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Key of Db
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:38:17 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "Topper" <leo_g@-----.com>
Subject: [kl] Key of Db

> I have found in our collection a Db Flute mostlikely cusome made for use
> with Her Majesty's Opera or some other band which used the pitch between
of
> 444.9 and 444 during the 1880's.
>
> It is a likely one-of-a-kind for two reasons: A@-----.

Actually I have an American old band score (over 100 years old) that calls
for a Db flute (NOT piccolo). So I would deduce that apparently this
beastie did exist and wasn't too rare. Of course yours may still have been
a custom design for a particular pitch. I can't really help you on that
aspect.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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