Klarinet Archive - Posting 000553.txt from 2000/12

From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Reed uppermost
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:13:24 -0500

I have not read the whole of this thread but
there is a slight problem in that an unwritten
tradition has no "history" of its own.

I doubt if Busoni's father was a peasant,
or Sebastiani, Labanchi, Carulli, Cavallini, Meissner,
John Mahon, Thomas Willman, Xavier Lefevre,
Joseph Beer, Blasius and Solere,
(all of whom played with reed uppermost).
My list is not complete.

All is revealed in Ingrid Pearson's
exhaustive and thoroughly researched paper
on the reed uppermost in the June 1999 issue
of the Australian Clarinet and Saxophone Magazine.
The author, an occasional visitor to this list,
is now on the staff of Nottingham University.

Michael Bryant

Tony Wakefield wrote on 11 December 2000 12:35 about Reed uppermost

>I hear "stories" of some Spanish and Eastern European hill domiciling
>"peasants" still playing with the reed uppermost. Can anyone verify this?
>Tony W.

>From: "Roger Shilcock"
>> "Reed uppermost" seems to have been quite usual in the 18th century.
>> Roger S.
>>
>> > >Tony Pay wrote,
>> > >>>Is that as I would imagine, a function of the display, or is there
>> > >>>independent evidence that determines the 'reed uppermost'
>configuration?
>> > >
>> > >The clarinet had a separate mouthpiece that could have been turned
>either
>> > >way. The curator must have decided it belonged reed-up, but I don't
>know
>> > >why. It was frustrating to find so little information available about
>this
>> > >display! Sorry I can't give a better answer.
>> >
>> > Has it not been discussed in this forum before that one very early
>school
>> > of clarinet playing did indeed play with the reed on top?
>
>> > Bill Hausmann
>
>
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