Klarinet Archive - Posting 000917.txt from 2004/10

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset clarinets, bassethorns
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 04:30:34 -0400

On 30 Oct, I <tony.p@-----.org> wrote:

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

The parenthesis is ambiguous. I didn't want it to mean, 'even though it was
in fact not a bassethorn in A'.

I might more clearly have written:

> My own experience with people who are confused about the instruments is
> that when you point out that the K622 instrument might just as easily (and
> arguably more appropriately) have been called a 'bassethorn in A' -- even
> though it was in fact not so called -- then light dawns for them.

Tony
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