Klarinet Archive - Posting 000111.txt from 2007/12

From: pullacreep@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Tarogato
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:10:51 -0500

Doesn't the Taragoto have a tempered scale to play Hungarian folk music=20
or is it based on our system of A440. It would seem to me that the horn=20
would sound out of tune to us but in the reality to play their music in=20
their country it would be in tune, is this right?

Bill Payne

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin van de Ven <mvandeven@-----.ca>
To: klarinet@-----.org
Sent: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:38 pm
Subject: RE: [kl] Tarogato

They are hard to find, a company in Germany makes them. the clarinet=20
maker Steve fox made one years ago, I played it until he changed the=20
pitch on it. He now has it. He used to make noise about making them for=20
sale, but I and others have asked him in the past without success. The=20
really good ones are made by Stowasser, a hungarian maker from the=20
early 20 cent. they are difficult to find and hungarians are reluctant=20
to let them go as they are a source of national pride. I have a badly=20
made romanian model that takes so much practise to play in tune that I=20
don't bother with it. They play like a soprano, the f fingering=20
generates an f# and you'll need other forked fingering to get some of=20
the accidentals. I recorded and toured with Steve Foxes instrument and=20
I really like the sound, I think the German company is Hammerschmidt.=C2=A0
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Good luck let me know if you find one.=C2=A0
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Martin=C2=A0
P.S. there is a Taragot track on The CD I made with the Flying Bulgar=20
Klezmer band, it`s called Der Yiddisher Soldat in die Trenches=C2=A0
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>From: Fred <fred.sheim@-----.net>=C2=A0
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org=C2=A0
>To: klarinet@-----.org=C2=A0
>Subject: [kl] Tarogato=C2=A0
>Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:59:36 -0500=C2=A0
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>I just got itchy to get a Tarogato- don't ask me why. My question is,=20
is >it like a wooden soprano sax? I have a soprano sax. Do I need the=20
full >system or the simple system? Where would I get one anyway?=C2=A0
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>Thanks in advance.=C2=A0
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>Fred=C2=A0
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