Klarinet Archive - Posting 000196.txt from 2005/08

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Alto clarinet in '30s dance band
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 07:32:51 -0400


They certainly existed - there were also "tenor clarinets", perversely in F.
Roger S.

In message <200508121205.05859.jdablin@-----.org writes:
> I was idly channel hopping last night when I found BBC 4 here in the UK,
> which was in the middle of "Shepperton Babylon", a history of British
> cinema in the 1920s and '30s. I was just in time to catch a clip of a
> dance band/orchestra. I've no idea of the plot, but the chairs were
> empty until each player rushed on just in time to make his entry. What
> startled me was that about the second player on played what looked like
> an alto clarinet, no doubt about it both from the look and the sound.
> The rest of the band seemed fairly normal, piano, strings, saxophones
> and brass.
>
> Did alto clarinets exist in those days, or would it have been a basset
> horn? Perhaps it was a novelty instrument in one particular band? I'm
> curious to know more about it.
>
> John Dablin
> Aylesbury UK
>
>
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