Klarinet Archive - Posting 000090.txt from 2002/11

From: Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: reverse Mozart
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 01:13:48 -0500

Karl,

I am not an expert on this, but I believe that it was more difficult to
play chromatically on the clarinets of this period than it was on the other
woodwind instruments.

Gary

At 08:22 PM 11/1/02, you wrote:
>Dan,
>
>Well, my tongue was a little way into my cheek, but I didn't mean to imply
>string players would have objected to the use of a B clarinet, rather to the
>use of a key signature with 5 or 6 sharps in it. Or is it only modern string
>players who whine about those keys?
>
>And what of the other woodwinds, who didn't have as many choices of
>instruments to alleviate their key signature woes? If the piece were in B
>Major, did Mozart simply leave out the other woodwinds and substitute B
>clarinets instead (I don't know the opera excerpts you cited and am not
>handy to a library with scores, or I'd answer my own question)?
>
>Karl
>
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