Klarinet Archive - Posting 000186.txt from 2002/09

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Period instruments --- were any of them "better" ?
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 17:07:34 -0400

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:06:25 -0700 (PDT), w8wright@-----.net said:

> Tony Pay wrote:
>
> > As you know, I think that putting a bulbous bell on an ordinary
> > clarinet *doesn't* help -- but then, Stadler didn't do that, did he?
>
> I have wondered whether it was Stadler or a patron or the instrument
> maker who chose the bell? I suppose it's possible that someone handed
> Stadler the instrument and asked (or insisted) "Here, will you play this
> instrument for me?"
>
> Is there clear cut knowledge about this?

All I meant was that Stadler (plus the maker Lotz) didn't put the
bulbous bell on an ordinary clarinet. It was on an extended instrument.

That meant that the join between the throat register Bb and the
beginning of the clarinet register B natural was relatively unaffected.

Tony
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