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Klarinet Archive - Posting 000033.txt from 2000/03

From: Topper <leo_g@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Key of Db
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 13:46:24 -0500

At 12:26 PM -0600 3/1/00, Dee D. Hays wrote:

>"Tramp, Tramp, Tramp Grand Fantasia for Cornet, Clarinet, or Baritone"
>T. H. Rollinson
>Copyright 1888
>
>The original "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" was an American Civil War song composed

Thank you.

>Now in looking at old scores, one must be careful of the naming conventions.
>At some point and places in history, flutes, fifes, and piccolos were named
>not for the concert pitch of fingered C but for the concert pitch of the
>lowest note that could be fingered on the instrument. Now a lot of these in
>use for bands over 100 years ago did not have keys for notes below fingered
>D. So what you or I would call a Db flute (fingered C gives concert Db) was
>sometimes called an Eb flute as the lowest fingered note was a D and yielded
>concert Eb. However this becomes immediately obvious by comparing the key
>signature of the part with the concert pitch of the piece. This is the
>situation for this composition. It is listed as an Eb flute part but the
>key signature makes it obvious that it uses this other naming convention and
>it really is what you or I would call a Db flute.
>
>
>Dee Hays
>Canton, SD

Thank you for that wonderful information. This Rudall is a Plateau keyed
cocouswood Boehm in Db with a low C foot. I was commenting somewhere that
clarinetists had to cart three or more instruments at some points in
history.

Can you comment on that... shed some light?

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