Klarinet Archive - Posting 000052.txt from 2000/05

From: "Dodgshun family" <dodgshun@-----.nz>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: [Re: [kl] Early Beethoven, etc...]
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 18:06:38 -0400

"Dodgshun family" <dodgshun@-----.nz> wrote:
>>> this what is known as a basset clarinet or some adaptation of it?<<

>>It's an extended bass clarinet, and I guess it is the same as a basset
clarinet, now I think about it.<<<

>Well, I might be the only one going nuts about this, but.... A low C bass
is
>NOT the same as a basset clarinet. Every reference I've ever seen about a
>basset clarinet lists it as a an A clarinet with range extended to low C.
>Leblanc has such a basset clarinet along with the more familiar basset horn
in
>F. A low C bass clarinet is just that, a bass clarinet. A basset clarinet
>still retains the characteristics of the soprano clarinet.

Sorry, I didn't make myself clear (I wrote that yesterday morning when I was
still half-asleep and absolutely whacked after spending two full days
rigging in the theatre). What I meant to say is that a low C bass is on the
same principle as a basset clarinet - in essence, a bigger version of a Bb
basset clarinet (if there is such a thing?). I guess a low C bass clarinet
in A would be a basset bass clarinet?

Anna

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