Klarinet Archive - Posting 000103.txt from 2006/12

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Stephen Fox
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:36:00 -0500

To be accurate, I couldn't tell if the mouthpiece was an alto clarinet =
mouthpiece or something else at about the same size. But I didn't want =
to play an instrument with a bore that big. The basset horn has a very =
reserved, meloncholy, and timid sound. On the large bore basset horns =
that I have played, the sound is too close to that of an alto clarinet =
and that is not the character I was interested in playing. =20

Dan Leeson =20
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Wakeling [mailto:joseph.wakeling@-----.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 4:20 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Stephen Fox

dnleeson wrote:
> I went to the German makers but stopped looking the moment it
> became apparent that they would not make an instrument with a
> standard clarinet mouthpiece. Theirs all had alto clarinet
> mouthpieces.

Do they? I thought they required a wider-bore mouthpiece, but something
along the lines of a 10-10 bore, not alto clarinet.

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