Klarinet Archive - Posting 000602.txt from 2001/09

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart Requiem / Basset ???
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:40:31 -0400

I find that basset horns do not project with the same clarity as
clarinets, so it is not surprising that you found them as you described.

But they are not supposed to have the same character. They are supposed
to be plaintive. One not entirely false joke is that basset horns are to
music what basset hounds are to dogdom.

Dan Leeson

Second finest basset hornist in Los Altos, California. There is no
third player.

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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