Klarinet Archive - Posting 000627.txt from 2001/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] German clarinetists defend German system
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:13:28 -0400

At 10:44 AM 7/23/2001 -0500, Ed Lacy wrote:
...Personally, while I would hope that neither the French bassoon or the German
>system clarinet will become obsolete or extinct, in the final analysis, it
>is the players themselves who will determine which instruments they prefer
>to play. It is for this reason that the French bassoon has already been
>replaced in such places as Italy, most of Spain, parts of Switzerland and
>South America, to say nothing of the fact that many orchestras in the US had
>players of the French bassoon early in the 20th century. The great majority
>of bassoonists tend to prefer the sonority and the feel of the German
>bassoon. Perhaps the same is true, in reverse, of the clarinet.

Even the Albert system clarinet retained a following among Traditional Jazz
("Dixieland") players, long after it had been supplanted by Boehm system
clarinets elsewhere.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://homepages.go.com/~zoot14/zoot14.html
Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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