Klarinet Archive - Posting 000570.txt from 2005/06

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Buffet catalog
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 08:12:28 -0400

The F clarinet *without* the extension to low written C was known in England as
the "tenor clarinet">
Verb. sap., or something.
Roger S.

In message <FJEKIMDEOJFJPBKBMDOPCEDJDIAA.dnleeson@-----.net>
klarinet@-----.org writes:
> Well let's discuss it then. The addition of four low semitones
> to a soprano clarinet does not make it a low clarinet. That is a
> serious technical error on the part of Buffet (if it is as you
> say). The basset clarinet is a think wanted by a person who
> needs a soprano clarinet in A with basset notes, so where,
> logically, would such a person look for that instrument?
>
> It is as if the catalog for soprano clarinets were to suddenly
> have inserted into it an alto clarinet.
>
> By the way, the same argument can be made for a basset horn. It
> is not an alto clarinet pitched in F, but can be strongly argued
> to be a soprano clarinet pitched in F that happens to have some
> low note in it.
>
> It certainly would interesting to see if the basset clarinet (and
> basset horn) ARE in a different catalog, namely one for low
> clarinets (which is not the same as a soprano clarinet that has
> notes lower than the traditional soprano clarinet). It's
> illogical and creates a definition of an instrument type at
> variance with what it is.
>
> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Wakeling [mailto:joseph.wakeling@-----.net]
> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 4:36 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Buffet catalog
>
>
> dnleeson wrote:
>
> > I concluded by pointing out that there is no basset clarinet in
> the
> > catalog and, therefore, nothing to say, except why not?
>
>
> Like I said before---wrong catalogue. The basset clarinet is in
> the
> "low clarinets" catalogue along with basset horn, alto, bass and
> contra-alto instruments.
>
> Whether it should be there or in the soprano clarinet catalogue
> is of
> course a point one could discuss. ;-)
>
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