Klarinet Archive - Posting 000128.txt from 2009/07

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] seeking basset clarinet
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:57:28 -0400

No worries Dan. I'm just forty three and can often not remember anything. I
took a cab to the hospital the other day and completely forgot the name of
the hospital.......

Although I can always lay my hand on the word aphasic. Most odd.

Matthew
(I think)

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Leeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]
Sent: 26 July 2009 00:02
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] seeking basset clarinet

You are right, I read it as next Friday. February is a different story.

Sorry I interfered.

But did I ever mention that about 5 years before I stopped playing, I tried
to get someone to make 3 basset clarinets for me, in B-flat, A, and C. It
was my intention to make them my regular orchestral clarinets.

I failed because no manufacturer would do the job. The reasons were
brainless, in that some nice young man who knew very little counseled me
that it would a waste of money because there was no orchestral literature
for the instruments.

Well that's not really the case, but it is close to the truth. And I would
counter by saying, "the extra length would change the character of the sound

of the instrument even if I never play the low notes. And the availability
of the instruments might encourage a composer.

I suspect that the Canadian guy who built my basset horn would have
undertaken the task but it takes him a year or more to get an instrument,
thought when he is finished, it is generally a great horn. It was not that
the cost was prohibitive, only that it would take forever to get all three
instruments.

Once again, sorry for thinking Friday instead of February. I just turned 77

and a lot is slipping out of my head. I hope that I am not on my way to an
unpleasant end.

Dan Leeson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Lloyd" <matthew@-----.uk>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 3:28 PM
Subject: RE: [kl] seeking basset clarinet

>I read that as February - in other words in a few months. Am I the only
>one?
>
> Matthew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Leeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]
> Sent: 25 July 2009 23:25
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] seeking basset clarinet
>
> Peter, I hate to put a cloud on your silver lining, but if you are playing
> the Mozart concert next Friday, July 31, even if you could get a basset
> clarinet by tomorrow you might find yourself in a position of being unable
> to play it effectively by next Friday. There is a lot of work below low
> e
> that you are going to have to get technique for.
>
> Playing K. 622 on a basset clarinet for the first time is somewhat akin to
> playing K. 622 for the first time.
>
> In effect, it is far too late for you to prepare for a performance of K.
> 622
>
> on the basset clarinet that takes place next Friday.
>
> Dan Leeson
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Stoll" <peterstoll2000@-----.ca>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 1:01 PM
> Subject: [kl] seeking basset clarinet
>
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm playing the Mozart Concerto this February and am looking into buying a
> basset clarinet. I'm wondering if anyone perchance has a used one they
> might
>
> be looking to sell?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Peter Stoll
>
> Principal, Toronto Philharmonia Orchestra
> University of Toronto
>
>
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