Klarinet Archive - Posting 000148.txt from 2000/05

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: [Re: [kl] Early Beethoven, etc...]
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 18:26:17 -0400

The fact that the basset clarinet and the low C bass clarinet both
happen to descend to low C is absolutely a coincidence. In the bass
clarinet, the low C was used because it permits the b.c. to play bassoon
parts. In the basset clarinet, it was for the purpose of allowing
arpeggios to end on the tonic of the most commonly used key; i.e.,
written C major.

Bill Hausmann wrote:
>
> At 06:17 AM 5/2/2000 -0700, Daniel Leeson wrote:
> >None of the above information is new in the slightest. A brief perusal
> >of the archives of Klarinet would have turned up 10,000 descriptions of
> >the instrument and would thus have made unnecessary the speculation on
> >what a basset clarinet is and the supposed relationship between it and a
> >low C bass clarinet.
> >
> It is then pure coincidence that both are clarinets, and both have keywork
> to low C?
>
> Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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> If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.
>
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