Klarinet Archive - Posting 000178.txt from 2004/11

From: Robert Wood <instruments@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinets
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:37:21 -0500

Could you please clarify a couple of things for me:

The "key" of a brass instrument identifies the harmonic series in which
that instrument plays with no change in pipe length(slide,valve etc.)
In general a Bflat instrument plays a Bflat scale , an Eflat instrument
plays an Eflat scale as it's basic range. The D Trumpet frolics happily
in the celestial realms of Brandenburg. But reeds ??

Would this hold generally for clarinets: The B flat clarinet would start
with all holes closed at B flat? The A clarinet would start on an A with
all holes closed?

I'm writing teaching parts for a piece in A major - originally scored
for a clarinet in A -; but wouldn't this part might be very difficult to
play on a B flat instrument- forked fingerings etc? But the major
classic and romantic pieces seem to have been written for A clarinets -?
How do students, amateurs approach this music? ( Yes,I know: "
Quietly, from a long distance")

Tom Henson wrote: ( his original has been severely cropped just for this
question about B natural)

>My clarinet teacher (Jeffrey Lerner ..... to....play a Rose etude that started on a middle B natural. He told me that this note is the hardest note on the clarinet to play because it requires a lot of air and is usually stuffy.-----------
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Thanks for your help.

Bob Wood

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