Klarinet Archive - Posting 000422.txt from 2005/11

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] saxual harassment (Re: [kl] sax)
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:09:47 -0500

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:22:11 +0100, Joseph Wakeling
<joseph.wakeling@-----.net>

>Yep, both names have been used. I think the "tenor clarinet" name was
>early 19th century. I remember reading about it in the Cambridge
>Companion to the Clarinet.
>
>I don't think there's any sense in searching for logic in clarinet
>names---the contralto clarinet is lower than the bass! ;-)
>

Yes. For all the of the strangeness in the saxophone world, at least
the instrument names are nicely sensible. Following that model, the
instrument we call "bass clarinet" would actually be called the "tenor
clarinet"; the instrument we call "contra-alto" would be "baritone"; and
the "contra-bass" would be the "bass".

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Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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