Klarinet Archive - Posting 000176.txt from 2003/04

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Russell Harlow's note
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:31:53 -0400

At 11:49 AM 4/6/2003 -0700, Russell Harlow wrote:
>Compair all these instruments with ones from the first 50 years of the 20th
>century and you will be very suprised, especially with the earlier small
>bore instruments just how much thinner the body of the horns are compaired
>to any model today. Jon Yeh played the 1907 horn and his comment was that it
>felt like a toy! But thats the one Mitchell Lurie loved the sound of. I'll
>be happy to show anyone who can come to the Clar-Fest these horns. I'll be
>there.

My own A clarinet is an old Carl Fischer, old enough to have a wrap-around
register key. I can't say I have noticed any difference in its body
diameter relative to any of my other clarinets.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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