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Klarinet Archive - Posting 000079.txt from 2001/09

From: "Lacy Schroeder" <LacyS@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: James Sclater on horn pitches
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:19:25 -0400

Yes, you do remember correctly! I was looking in the New Grove
dictionary of Music and Musicians on Friday, and like the nerd that I
am, I read all the info and history of the clarinet. And what I saw that
I didn't know before, was that there were, like Dan correctly
remembered, clarinets that changed key by adding a joint to the body of
the instrument. I don't remember the name of the maker or the years they
were used. But as Dan said, this obviously didn't survive! I wonder how
they really sounded, how in (or out of) tune they were. Fascinating,
isn't it?

Lacy Schroeder

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Leeson [mailto:leeson0@-----.net]
> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 12:55 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Re: James Sclater on horn pitches
>=20
> If I remember correctly, there was even a clarinet in which you
> substituted one joint for one of a greater length to change=20
> the pitch of
> the instrument, but it was never successful.
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