Klarinet Archive - Posting 001183.txt from 2000/06

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] C clarinet
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:48:57 -0400

1) Not everyone who has C parts to play can afford a c clarinet;
2) At least in this country, their availability is not universal, very
especially second-hand;
3)... and it's one more instrument which ought to be practised on....
Yours,
Roger S.

On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 Tski1128@-----.com wrote:

> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:29:31 EDT
> From: Tski1128@-----.com
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] C clarinet
>
> About 3 years ago, I purchased a noblet C clarinet, mostly for use in my
> Klezmer band. I liked it so much that I had to get a much better instrument.
> I ended up with an awesome RC Prestige C that tunes great and sounds
> wonderful. I recently had a E-11C to try, I really liked it a lot, not as
> much as the RC I had been playing, But to much to send back to International.
> So one of my friends decided to buy it. Had I had the choice when I had
> choice between the E-11, and the Rc when I was trying better instruments, I
> would have in all likelihood bought the E-11. To my ear the E-11 sounds and
> reacts very much like an R13 bore type clarinet and it is a WHOLE LOT less
> expensive. The question I have about "C" clarinets and other pitch clarinets
> is. Why don't we use them when the music calls for it? Do we expect that
> every Clarinet no matter the key, is supposed to sound like a Bb clarinet? I
> am looking for an Albert system "C" clarinet if anyone has one. I'm giving
> serious thought into having Rossi build a C clarinet for me. If I do, and he
> does, I'll let you all know how it turns out!!
>
> Tom Puwalski The artist formerly known as Sarge
>
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