Klarinet Archive - Posting 000339.txt from 2000/06

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re Pamela Poulin's picture
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 05:05:36 -0400

Tom asked about the kind of picture that Poulin discovered. It was a sketch of
Stadler's basset clarinet and it appeared in the program for a concert that he
gave in Vilnius, Lithuania around 1802. He played K. 622.

The sketch was not a casual drawing, it's purpose was to show what this new (or
effectively new) instrument looked like. And the remarkable thing about it was
that, for the first time, the bell of Stadler's horn was shown to be like the
bell of an English Horn or bulbous, not like the bell of a traditional
clarinet. None of the contemporary instrument makers who were making modern
basset clarinets ever considered an egg-shaped bell for a basset clarinet. And
it was on this bell where the vent hole under discussion is found.

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