Klarinet Archive - Posting 000066.txt from 2002/12

From: Bi6W@-----.net (Bill Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] playing music written for another instrument
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 18:06:09 -0500

<><> Joseph=A0Wakeling wrote:

so for a while there was a genuine coexistence of the two as distinct
musical voices [above and below the break], before the chalumeau finally
faded out of existence

Quoting from "Clarinet" by Jack Brymer again --- and keeping in mind
that Telemann was a concert master in 1704 and wrote many of his
best-known compositions in the 1730's and lived until 1767:

"It is usually assumed that the clarinet, as distinguished from the
chalumeau [because it has a register key], was developed by J.C. Denner
by the year 1700. [The register key] makes an instrument capable of
remarkable purity of sound over the whole compass of almost three
octaves."

Brymer also discusses particular instruments made in 1710 to 1720.

Cheers,
Bill

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