Klarinet Archive - Posting 000257.txt from 2002/12

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] bass clarinet in A
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:53:19 -0500

When a group I play with was asked to play for "La Boheme," we eventually
did without the bass clarinet - I remember the part as being one of those
I referred to, though, with anything up to seven flats in the key signature.
Roger S.

In message <20021211150522.8613.qmail@-----.org writes:
> This question has always interested me; I believe Dan
> Leeson had an article published in "The Clarinet" on
> this topic. I do recall places where the bass key did
> not match the soprano clarinets, I think it was in "La
> Boheme", and I wonder why if Bass clarinets in A were
> so common that so many composers wrote for them (from
> Wagner to Bartok, Puccini to Mahler), why are there
> not more vintage "A" instruments floating around?
>
> I did notice an ad I presume from Linnea Nereim, bass
> clarinetist of the Cleveland Orchestra, in the second
> last International Musician offering a bass in A for
> sale.
>
>
>
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>
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