Klarinet Archive - Posting 000088.txt from 2001/09

From: "Lacy Schroeder" <LacyS@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: James Sclater on horn pitches
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:21:34 -0400

Yes, that is basically what the article said! Thank you, Tony. But out
of pure curiosity, why didn't this catch on and why don't we use these
today? It seems like a very effective way of changing the instrument's
pitch. Before all this, several years ago I had actually wondered why
clarinets didn't come with attachments like these. But, alors! New
information! So, how well in tune did the one you used play? Did you
enjoy it? How was the timbre in relation to what is commonly used today?
I'm really curious about this.=20

Thanks again, Tony!

Lacy Schroeder

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Pay [mailto:Tony@-----.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 11:37 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Re: James Sclater on horn pitches
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> On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:19:25 -0500, LacyS@-----.org said:
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> > Yes, you do remember correctly! I was looking in the New Grove
> > dictionary of Music and Musicians on Friday, and like the=20
> 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=20
> 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?
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> 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.
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> This Bb nstrument also has a 'corps de rechange' -- in other=20
> 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.)
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> This instrument works, in Bb and A, and the manufacturing=20
> technique was
> often used. =20
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> Tony
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> ... Toto, I don't think we're in DOS anymore...
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