Klarinet Archive - Posting 000088.txt from 2008/12

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gran Partitta, again, Part 3
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:09:36 -0500

Martin Baxter wrote:
> Was this because he played a German-fingered instrument. I don't
> believe I've ever seen an alto with Oehler type fingering; on the other
> hand when I was in Wuppertal in the early sixties there were basset
> horns in the opera orchestra even then; also at a performance of the
> Mozart Requiem I heard in Solingen about the same time.

No. Switzerland seems an almost exclusively French-system country, even
in the German-speaking parts.

There are several Harmonie in the Fribourg area and I've never seen an
alto clarinet used in any of them.

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