Klarinet Archive - Posting 000305.txt from 2001/05

From: David Glenn <notestaff@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Low B Natural
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 03:15:28 -0400

Will Cicola wrote:

> >Basset clarinet makers, you've gotten it wrong up until now! We need a low B!
>
> Just out of curiosity, would it be possible to make a special (and obviously
> lengthened) bell with a hole in the right place to cover with the knee and
> fit this to a current basset clarinet?
> --
> Ich brauche kein Leben. Ich habe aber Orchester!
> I don't need a life. I have orchestra!
> Will Cicola
>

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Now it's interesting you ask that!

At the lunch break of the symposium, I was talking with Jochen Seggelke (who spoke
later). He is a maker of modern and historical clarinets. He told me that he
already has plans made for such a bell for the modern clarinet.

David

P.S. A bit more idiomatic translation would be: "Ich brauche kein Leben denn ich
hab' Orchester" (You know the Germans and their run-on sentences ;-) )

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