Klarinet Archive - Posting 000317.txt from 2008/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mendelssohn and C clarinets
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:03:06 -0500

At 06:16 PM 1/28/2008, David Blumberg wrote:
>When Ravel wrote his Bolero Saxophonist Marcel Mule got a good laugh
>too. (written for a sax in a key that didn't exist)

The F Mezzo Saxophone? They did exist, and still do in very small
numbers. They just never caught on, and most wound up as practice
horns for instrument repair schools. There are still a few C
sopranos around, too. There is one on eBay now. Sax envisioned a
whole family of orchestral saxes in C and F to complement the band
saxes in Bb and Eb. The guy was a dreamer!

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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