Klarinet Archive - Posting 000084.txt from 2001/09

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: James Sclater on horn pitches
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:58:01 -0400

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:19:25 -0500, LacyS@-----.org said:

> 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?

The instrument that I played on the Virgin recording of the Weber
concertos with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment was a copy of
an instrument by Simiot, of Lyons.

This Bb nstrument also has a 'corps de rechange' -- in other words, when
you switch to the A instrument, you keep the bottom bit that goes from
low G# to low E, and just change to another joint that includes
everything above the RH third finger. (You keep the mouthpiece too,
obviously.)

This instrument works, in Bb and A, and the manufacturing technique was
often used.

Tony
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