Klarinet Archive - Posting 000310.txt from 2000/06

From: "Doug Sears" <dsears@-----.net>
Subj: Re: SV: [kl] Alf Horberg's comments
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 15:08:53 -0400

Dan Leeson wrote:
>based on that picture, Hoprich built a basset clarinet with a vent hole in it
>just like the picture from 1800 showed. Well the instrument plays down to low
>C as you would expect, but the vent hole, when closed by the foot (that's the
>only way you can reach it) creates a perfect B-natural on Eric's basset
>clarinet and presumably on Stadler's..

I'm having fun imagining the stir Stadler would have created if he had appeared
as a soloist in concert barefoot and occasionally stuck his knee way out to the
side and lifted his foot up to the end of the instrument. It'd be an
entertaining scene in a novel ...

My guess is that, while there are good musical reasons to want a leading tone
below the tonic, they aren't nearly as urgent psychologically as the need to get
down to the tonic. I sometimes do the foot trick on sax, where it works fully
clothed, to get a low A.

--Doug
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Doug Sears dsears@-----.org/~dsears

>That is what left me breathless and still in partial shock. That is
>potentially very important and exciting NEW NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>Dan (who gets excited about these things)

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