Klarinet Archive - Posting 000897.txt from 2004/10

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Basset clarinets, bassethorns
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:52:23 -0400

If by "we" Tony is referring to contemporary players as being
responsible for inventing the term "basset clarinets," (which is
the way the note below reads), Nick Shackleton says that he has
documents from the late 1700s using that very name.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Pay [mailto:tony.p@-----.org]
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 2:28 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Basset clarinets, bassethorns

Thing is, there is a bassethorn in F, and there was a bassethorn
in G.

We could have called Stadler's instruments 'bassethorns in A and
Bb', but
there are already well-established clarinets in those keys.

So we coined the names, 'basset clarinet in A' and 'basset
clarinet in Bb',
the word 'basset' signifying the low C extension, as on the
bassethorns.

And, come on, it doesn't matter what you *call* things.

Tony
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