Klarinet Archive - Posting 000250.txt from 2004/12

From: "Danny Bittker" <dbittker@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] "Strange doublings" and drums as non-pitched instruments
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:16:45 -0500

In regard to what Ormondtoby Montoya said, the tympani is NOT the only
non-pitched drum; the steel drum is, in most cases, a fully chromatic
instrument with usually a range of about two and a half octaves, and the
"double second" (which is one of the most common sizes of steel drum) has
as its lowest note the same written "E" as the clarinet does, though it
sounds at concert pitch--as a result clarinet exercises can be used quite
well with it; I've used both Rose and Kroepsch, for example, though my
highest note is only "C" above the staff...

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