Klarinet Archive - Posting 000325.txt from 2000/04

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] A Flat Clarinet
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 21:28:50 -0400

On Sat, 8 Apr 2000 OrionDJ12@-----.com wrote:

> Currently a play the B flat clarinet, but I want to learn the A flat. Do you
> have to get different reeds, and are the fingerings different?

Wow - you have an Ab? You're the MAN! Good luck finding parts...although
Lucien Calliet wrote for the Ab prolifically in all his clarinet chamber
works.

I would imagine the fingers remain the same, assuming it's Boehm, or
whatever system you play (were Ab's ever made in Oehler or Albert?). As
for reeds...I would guess that Eb clarinet reeds would have to suffice,
since I don't know of any manufactured reed that comes smaller...

J. Shouryu Nohe
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe
Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
"I don't know, and I don't have an opinion." - Jet Black

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