Klarinet Archive - Posting 000213.txt from 2000/06

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Subj: [kl] K.622 Reconstruction
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 17:48:01 -0400

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When Eric Hoeprich the first time showed me the reconstruction of the =
"Riga-Stadler" basset-clarinet, he had made a discovery that if he =
closed the vent hole on the knee joint of the pointed bell, put there =
for tuning the low C, he could play a perfect low B natural. We went =
through the concerto and found two spots where it would be musically =
appropriate to play this low B natural. The spots in a version for =
basset clarinet are:=20
1st. Mov. recapitulation measure 295, 3rd beat, final note of the G7 =
arpeggio. The whole measure will be: bdfdbgfdb, instead of: bdfdfdbgf, =
exactly the same as in the exposition, measure 102. Played like this one =
avoids the repeated fdfd in measure 295 that I always found very =
annoying.=20
The other spot is: 3rd Mov. transition, measure 147, to get the whole =
section 145-157 in the low octave, to avoid the octave jump down, at the =
upbeat to 150.
To me this idea makes perfect sense. However, we can never find out if =
the original instrument had this vent hole or some other construction =
for playing this low B natural so this will remain a mystery

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