Klarinet Archive - Posting 000916.txt from 2004/10

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset clarinets, bassethorns
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 04:15:48 -0400

On 30 Oct, Georg.Kuehner@-----.de (Georg K=FChner) wrote:

> Am 29.10.2004 23:28 Uhr schrieb "Tony Pay" unter <tony.p@-----.org>:
>=20
> > Thing is, there is a bassethorn in F, and there was a bassethorn in G=
.
> >=20
> > We could have called Stadler's instruments 'bassethorns in A and Bb',=
but
> > there are already well-established clarinets in those keys.
> >=20
> > So we coined the names, 'basset clarinet in A' and 'basset clarinet i=
n
> > Bb', the word 'basset' signifying the low C extension, as on the
> > bassethorns.
> >=20
> > And, come on, it doesn't matter what you *call* things.
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> There is famous german novel called "Ein Tisch ist ein Tisch" (a table =
is a
> table). It is about an old man who ist mostly alone (the internet was n=
ot
> invented when this novell was written:-)) and he starts to call things =
by
> other names - the result is he gets lonelier because nobody undestands =
any
> more.
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> "Bewu=DFtsein macht das Sein" ?!

My own experience with people who are confused about the instruments is t=
hat
when you point out that the K622 instrument might just as easily have bee=
n
called a 'bassethorn in A' -- even though it was in fact not -- then ligh=
t
dawns for them.=20

Tony
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