Klarinet Archive - Posting 001171.txt from 2003/03

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: C clarinet
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 09:53:56 -0500

Roger Shilcock wrote:
> An obvious (to me)comment on this is that the sounds of C clarinets have clearly
> changed over the years - centuries, in fact.... If a composer in the mid-nineteenth
century hebuinely wanted the sound of a typicalk C clarinet of his day,
it doesn't follow that he woiuyld want the sound of a present-day
instrument
with a larger bore and a mouthpiece and reed as used on a B flat instrument.
> Roger S.

1) It is not at all obvious that the sounds of a C clarinet have changed
over the years. I hear period C clarinets all the time and I do not
agree that these sounds "have clearly changed over the years."

2) No one knows what a mid 10th century composer wanted.

The matter that was raised dealt with the rules of clarinet writing in
the mid 19-th century as discerned from an examination of more than 50
clarinet tutors, many published in England, others in France, as well as
Germany and Italy. In effect, the choice of clarinet appears to have
had nothing to do with taste and preference

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