Klarinet Archive - Posting 000968.txt from 2000/10

From: Gary Truesdail <gir@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] And while we are at it ...
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 02:36:14 -0400

My friend, who ownes quite a few of the oldies, has agreed to let me try them
out to find out which ones are capable of producing a high G. He said some of
them will not because of the keys in which they were constructed. Some of them
that are in other than modern keys of Bb, A Eb will not get a high G because
they would need to have a tone hole in the correct location and that the
necessary and critical tone hole would be under a key that does not exist on
that instrument.

It will be a fun experiment. I'll have to make some weird reeds to fit some
really weird old wooden mouthpieces. He said one of the mouthpieces has a long
tube where the modern tenon is located that was used to slide in or out of the
barrel to accomodate the various pitches that were encountered if you had to
play in several different orchestras.

GaryT

Daniel Leeson wrote:

> That is a valid question and I don't know the answer to it. Perhaps
> some of the original instrument players could comment on it. But the
> points being made on this matter are independent of the phyiscal ability
> to produce that note. The issue is that there is no evidence that
> Mozart ever employed that note (or, in fact, anything above high D) in
> any work he ever wrote for clarinet. And since the manuscript of K. 622
> has been lost for 200 years and we play the work from sources other than
> the original, we have no idea what he wrote in the original.
>
> Dan

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