Klarinet Archive - Posting 000026.txt from 2000/05

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: [Re: [kl] Early Beethoven, etc...]
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 07:38:37 -0400

On 1 May 2000, Noelette Stout wrote:

> >From wwandbw.com about the LeBlanc:
>
> "Leblanc Basset Clarinet Model 1756S
> Pitched in the key of A, the Leblanc basset clarinet possesses the mechanical
> facility and richness of the A clarinet but with an extended range to low C
> providing fuller, richer tone for notes in this normally weaker register. "

What I want to know is...how do they determine that this register is
weaker? For crying out loud, for a good 150 years, it was NONEXISTANT,
and for the most part today, still is. How is something that isn't,
'weaker' - seriously?

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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