Klarinet Archive - Posting 000867.txt from 2004/10

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mozart, Don Giovanni, and Tony Pay
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:07:24 -0400


From Patricia Smith:

[snip]
Does this use of multiply-pitched clarinets date back to their
origin,
or no?

Patricia Smith

Answer: yes and no. The real source of the problem is that
clarinets have two registers separated by a 12th, whereas all
other winds have two registers separated by an octave. Because
of that minor difference, we have multiply-pitched clarinets.

Now that's the answer, but the evidence in support of that
statement is a 35 page scholarly paper published in the 1995
Mozart Jahrbuch.

Dan Leeson

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