Klarinet Archive - Posting 000228.txt from 2005/01

From: orm1ondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: Re: Re: [kl] Clarinet Anniversary
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:40:24 -0500

Roger=A0Shilcock wrote:

> but where does this date come from?

If you mean the date "1690", here's what Brymer writes in his book
"Clarinet" (pg. 19 of paperback Menuhin Music Guides):

[....] However Doppelmeyer [in a book published in 1730 which is
allegedly the first reference in print to Denner's clarinet] goes on to
say: "and finally (as a result of his invention) [Denner] produced
chalumeaux in an improved form." It is this statement which seems to
be ambiguous, suggesting as it does that clarinets and 'improved
chalumeaux' are not the same. It is probably wrong to deduce this, as
we shall see later. The mystery remains. Where did all the
'_un_improved' chalumeaux go? Several researchers have described
Denner's _improved_ chalumeaux' of 1690 as a....

....and then Brymer goes on to discuss the various distinctions between
'unimproved chalumeaux' and 'clarinets' --- with emphasis on the
register key and being "startlingly low in pitch for its short length."

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