Klarinet Archive - Posting 000335.txt from 2006/09

From: Reedsoaker@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Ab Sopranino clarinet
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:00:32 -0400

20 plus years ago, I had the chance to play a Leblanc A-flat for a half hour
or so. It played quite well. I was truly surprised. The one I played had
regular sized keys and took some getting used to. The one on Ebay right now
seems to be a later model that addressed this issue by making the keys oversized;
nice!

Phil Feather

I have tried several, by Orsi and by Schwenk and Seggelke
(http://www.schwenk-und-seggelke.de/englisch/frame.html) and one of unknown
Italian origin. Like with the Eb it all depends on mouthpiece and reed. If
people would spend a fraction of the time they spend on selecting a good
mouthpiece and preparing a good reed for the A/Bb on the smaller clarinets,
it would not be as much of a problem. There are various people in Vienna who
play the "picksuesse hoelzl" in historic Schrammeln-bands and it sounds very
sweet and quite effortless. cf. www.philharmoniaschrammeln.at
The Ab was actually a G at high pitch.

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