Klarinet Archive - Posting 000336.txt from 2006/09

From: "Curtis Bennett" <curtis.bennett@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Ab Sopranino clarinet
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:46:31 -0400

Thanks for posting the link to this item. I've always wanted to see
one. It surely is a real rarity.

But I have to wonder - what is the purpose of such a thing? Are there
actually pieces of music which call for Ab sopranino clarinet?

On 9/30/06, Reedsoaker@-----.com> wrote:
> 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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