Klarinet Archive - Posting 000423.txt from 2005/06

From: ormo2ndtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: [kl] For special purposes (was: Basset clarinets are regular orchestral)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:56:34 -0400

George=A0Kidder wrote:

> But its existence implies that there was a use
> for the lower notes at that time, at least in the
> mind of the first owner.

Apropos of instruments built for _very_ specialized uses, I notice (in
New Harvard Dictionary of Music):

Sax tuba: A valved brass instrument in circular form. Adolphe Sax
made 15 of them in various sizes for Halevy's opera "Le juif errant" in
1852.

I wonder how low these instruments went?

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