Klarinet Archive - Posting 000599.txt from 2001/09

From: Jim Bartram <jbartram@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart Requiem / Basset ???
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 21:47:48 -0400

They're basset horns.

--Jim

At 08:13 PM 9/17/01 -0500, Jim Hobby wrote:
>I finally got the chance to watch/listen to the videotape of the Mostly
>Mozart Festival Concert (PBS telecast) the second half of which was the
>Mozart Requiem. Are the instruments used basset horns or basset clarinets?
>
>(Perhaps demonstrating my ignorance) it has seemed when I've heard these
>instruments played they lack the projective quality of the Bb/A clarinets.
>Is this perception correct or is it the works in which they have been
>played?
>
>Thanks for the education <g>
>Jim
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