Klarinet Archive - Posting 000214.txt from 2000/06

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] K.622 Reconstruction
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 18:20:56 -0400

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000 23:48:01 +0200, alf.horberg@-----.se said:

> 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:
>
> 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.

I'm sorry, Alf, you'll have to explain that to me again. There don't
seem to be enough notes in your 'whole measure', and measure 102 in the
exposition is a different bar altogether. Did you mean bar 111? But
that's quite different too.

Could you spell out all of bar 295, all sixteen notes?

> 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.

Yes, I understand that one.

Did you read what I said about that in my previous post in this thread,
where I said that someone had shown me an edition in which 147 appears
as F D D D, but *an octave up*? And what that seemed to imply? Again,
does anyone know whether that's one of the 1803 lot?

By the way, can you turn off MIME in your mailer? I do have a
mime-enabled mailer, but it's not the one I usually use for mailing
lists. Most people here post in standard ASCII text.

Tony
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