Klarinet Archive - Posting 000202.txt from 2004/01

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] A golden opportunity for KLARINET
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 19:55:16 -0500

I think that one of the most valuable subjects discussed on this list on
and off over the past 10 years deals with both why there are
multiply-pitched clarinets, and the consequence of this phenomeon,
something shared by no other instrument in the wind choir. It has
enabled all of us to rethink the function and purpose of C clarinets,
for example, and better place each instrument in its proper perspective.

Every clarintist on this list should, if asked, be able to give a lucid
explanation about why there are clarinets in A, B-flat, and how this
phonomenon came about.

Now it seems to mee that a subject that has been tragically neglected is
one that address how the Albert system clarinet was effectively
superceded in America (and probably a lot more countries), and how and
why this phonomenon occurred. It is a period of clarinet history that I
lived through and I haven't the vaguest idea what happened.

Can you visualized the Boehm system clarinet being relaced in America
over a period of the next 25-50 years? I find it hard to believe that
such a thing could happen, but it certainly did happen to the Albert
system clarinet and I have no idea why.

I'm curious about how how, when, why, and where this happened. What did
we gain? What did we lose?

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Dan Leeson
leeson0@-----.net

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