Klarinet Archive - Posting 000260.txt from 2001/06

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] B&H 1010s
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 21:54:39 -0400

Mark Charette observes (concerning reputed intonation problems on large bore clarinets).....

Of course, the recorded evidence suggests that Gibson is wrong. Listen to recordings prior to the R-13 by some of the artists of the time playing big-bore clarinets. While it may have been more difficult to play large bore clarinets in tune, it sure doesn't appear to have been impossible.

Walter replies:

1. Just quoting Gibson, I've never even SEEn a 1010 up close.

2. Great artists have always been able to transcend the limits of their instruments (which we contine to have to do with the "modern" clarinet. I imagine an artist like Reginald Kell would have found a way to play beautifully and in tune on any clarinet you put in his hands.

3. Gibson also remembers seeing Kell's clarinet and says that the tone holes were full of fingernail polish and tuning tape!!!!!

This is all I know about this subject.

Walter
www.clarinetepress.com

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