Klarinet Archive - Posting 000423.txt from 2003/10

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset Clarinet Alert
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:20:37 -0400

Thiel, Mark wrote:

> Bill Hausmann wrote:
>
>>There is a Selmer basset clarinet on eBay right now:
>
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2564786914&category=10182
>
> They claim: ". . .the clarinet recreated to perform the Mozart clarinet
> concerto and quintet the way it was written and initially performed." Ooo,
> if they only knew what a debate _that_ claim would initiate.
> It seems to have a fitting for a peg on the bell. Is that standard? Or is
> the fitting for a lyre to use when doing the Mozart in marching band?
> Mark Thiel
>

Putting aside all musicological and historical questions, the early
Selmer basset clarinets (and I have no idea what the one for sale is)
were problematic. Whoever buys that particular instrument may possibly
find that to be the case.

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