Klarinet Archive - Posting 000591.txt from 2002/09

From: w9wright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: RE: [kl] My attempt to formalize my unstructured ideas
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 22:19:37 -0400

<><><> I wrote:
>From the overall perspective of major evolutions, wasn't a quality
clarinet more novel and influential than a quality fiddle?

<><> Mark wrote:
To whom?

What I meant was: wasn't the clarinet evolving into a new class of
musical instrument, whereas (perhaps I'm wrong?) didn't Stradivarius
simply build violins with superior tone without expanding the
instrument's compass or without enabling a full chromatic scale without
being a virtuoso, and so forth?

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