Klarinet Archive - Posting 000113.txt from 2006/12

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Stephen Fox
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:28:17 -0500

dnleeson wrote:
> 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.

Well, if you didn't like it you didn't like it. It's just that I've
never heard a German basset horn that felt like an alto clarinet.

As I recall, the bore on German models is narrower than a modern alto
clarinet but wider than your Stephen Fox model---about the same as what
Steve calls his "medium bore" basset horn.

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