Klarinet Archive - Posting 000855.txt from 2004/10

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart, Don Giovanni, and Tony Pay - but mostly Stadler
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:18:01 -0400

I don't think instruments with bulbous bells were generally made from boxwood
- there just weren't the big logs available. I suppose the elbow joint at the
bottom might have enabled the instrument to be rested on something.
Roger S.

In message <200410281548.49958.jdablin@-----.org writes:
> On Thursday 28 Oct 2004 15:30, Roger Shilcock wrote:
> > The Riga engraving is presumably based on a combination of sketch and
> > memory. If the artist was no clarinettist and had a bad view, maybe a
> > support of some kind was simply missed. (This could apply to other features
> > of the final picture, of course).
> > Roger S.
>
> Presumably the instrument would have been made of boxwood, so would have been
> a little lighter than an equivalent in grenadilla?
>
> John Dablin
> Aylesbury UK
>
>
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