Klarinet Archive - Posting 000229.txt from 2005/01

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: Re: Re: [kl] Clarinet Anniversary
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:29:06 -0500

THis is very far from being a primary source - Brymer copied it from somewhere,
and there could even be a circular process going on here.
Roger S.

In message <21571-41E82DD0-1021@-----.net>
klarinet@-----.org writes:
> Roger Shilcock 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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