Klarinet Archive - Posting 000317.txt from 2000/06

From: "Alf Hörberg" <alf.horberg@-----.se>
Subj: SV: SV: [kl] Alf Horberg's comments
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 17:01:29 -0400

It works perfectly using your thigh just above the knee cap. I think using
the foot requires circus training.

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Sears <dsears@-----.net>
Subject: Re: SV: [kl] Alf Horberg's comments

> 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
> ----------------------------
> 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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