Klarinet Archive - Posting 000072.txt from 2004/03

From: clarinetuk@-----.com
Subj: RE: [kl] Basset Clarinets - to take over the world???
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:16:54 -0500

Howarth can make a basset to complement your Bb clarinet to, but only on a commission basis.

It has taken some time to develop the Basset joint, but we are very pleased with the outcome

Donny

> from: Matthew Lloyd <Matthew@-----.f9.co.uk>
> date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 14:40:45
> to: klarinet@-----.org
> subject: RE: [kl] Basset Clarinets - to take over the world???
>
> Dan,
>
> Makes more sense now - I was thinking backwards not forwards - not
> unknown for me.
>
> Basset Clarinets in A are now commonplace - but who makes the instrument
> in Bb?
>
> C?
>
> Eb?????? No - can't imagine that one!
>
> Although I know that one can get a pair from Fox, and I accept he is a
> maker of the first rank, he is a one man band only - and there are a
> hell of a lot of clarinettists out there.
>
> I'm afraid that a player in the position and influence of Anton Stadler
> is unique.
>
> Tony Pay - are the Howarth instruments only in A?
>
> Matthew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Leeson [mailto:leeson0@-----.net]
> Sent: 02 March 2004 14:37
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Basset Clarinets - to take over the world???
>
> Matthew Lloyd wrote:
> > Dan,
> >
> > I understand completely why the Basset Clarinet is essential for the
> two
> > big Mozart works.
> >
> > I understand that there are parts written (Tito?) for Basset Clarinet
> in
> > Bb. So the need for one of those is there - same principle of course.
> >
> > But why have a pair of Basset Clarinets as your regular pair? That I
> > can't see. The Basset Clarinet has practical disadvantages in that it
> is
> > much longer and therefore heavier as well as more expensive. Leaving
> > aside those rare works (albeit that they are central to the
> repertoire)
> > that are written for them, why should I carry around more wood than I
> do
> > at present?
> >
> > I'm sure that there is a good reason - it's just that I can't see it!
> >
> > Matthew
> >
> Because if clarinetists have them, composers will write for them. In
> this way we, as performers, will impact the repertorie for many years.
> And as the instruments are required for this or that piece, players will
>
> buy basset clarients in order to play them.
>
> There is a slightly similar situation with the clarinet that descends to
>
> low E-flat, a note that is not on all traditional clarinets. But as
> composers began to require that note (the clarinet part in Peter and the
>
> Wolf, for example) you found a player here and there (and certainly all
> the Russian players) who bought such a clarinet for exactly that
> purpose.
>
> Don't think of yourself of a passive being. As a clarinet player you
> should be establishing the range of an instrument that you can play so
> that composers will write for it. Don't be passive. Be active.
>
> Dan
>
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> >
> >
> >
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