Klarinet Archive - Posting 000321.txt from 2002/12

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] bass clarinet in A
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:38:05 -0500

At 10:05 AM 12/11/2002 -0500, Peter Stoll wrote:
>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?

Perhaps all those vintage A basses were High Pitch?

Bill Hausmann

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