Klarinet Archive - Posting 000913.txt from 2004/10

From: Georg.Kuehner@-----.de (Georg K=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=hner)
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset clarinets, bassethorns
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 02:20:43 -0400

There's a book by Dietrich Demus and Thomas Grass named "Bassetthorn" (in
German) which gives much more detailed information about teverything related
than any other book I know.
There is a new (2nd) edition out I got from them (Grass and Demus) in
Berlin.

Regards Georg

PS: I think Dan and Nick are right.

Am 29.10.2004 23:44 Uhr schrieb "dnleeson" unter <dnleeson@-----.net>:

> 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.
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> Dan Leeson
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> -----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
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> Thing is, there is a bassethorn in F, and there was a bassethorn
> in G.
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> We could have called Stadler's instruments 'bassethorns in A and
> Bb', but
> there are already well-established clarinets in those keys.
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> 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.
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> And, come on, it doesn't matter what you *call* things.
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> Tony
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