Klarinet Archive - Posting 000572.txt from 2000/08

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Clarinet nomenclature
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 21:35:36 -0400

--- OrionDJ12@-----.com wrote:

> Getting a low Eb (!) on a clarinet? You are talking Bb clarinet, right?

Does it feel weird to most of you to refer to your "Bb clarinet" as your
Bb "soprano" clarinet? More and more I find myself having to use this no-
menclature because it is not immediately evident to my french horn-playing
and oboe-playing and baboon-playing colleagues that I'm referring to a so-
prano instrument when I say "my Bb clarinet" (especially when I've got a
whole section's worth of instruments on stands in front of me for a given
concert). My bass clarinet is a "Bb clarinet" too, of course, and it's
certainly easy enough to get a low-Eb out of *that* instrument.

Neil

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