Klarinet Archive - Posting 000043.txt from 2009/11

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Interesting C clarinet part
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:19:24 -0500

You are absolutely right Roger. One cannot hold down a bass clarinet chair
in a symphony orchestra today without the low C. When I had my bass
clarinet in A made, I asked for the same thing, but Selmer refused. If I
were to do it again today, I'd have Fox make a low C bass in A for me.

Dan Leeson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Hewitt" <rogerclarinet@-----.uk>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Interesting C clarinet part

I see plenty of low Ds on Bass Clarinet parts (and occasionally Cs) and I
just wish I could afford an instrument to go there. The "standard" is Eb,
course, but many composers would expect the low C extension to be available
in professional bands and orchestras.

Roger Hewitt

--- On Sat, 7/11/09, Dan Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:

> From: Dan Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net>
> Subject: Re: [kl] Interesting C clarinet part
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Date: Saturday, 7 November, 2009, 19:46
> That is probably true. Even the
> best of us would find it difficult to create a usable harp
> part. And clarinets are particularly bummered up
> because of the added complexity of being a transposing
> instrument.
>
> I once played a Sousa piece (don't remember which one, but
> it was a suite of some sort) that called for a low D on the
> bass clarinet. It was a perfectly good note, but I
> think that Sousa may have been uncertain about the lower
> limits of a clarinet.
>
> Dan Leeson
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Vaccaro" <mike@-----.com>
> To: <Klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [kl] Interesting C clarinet part
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> > I think that many times orchestrators and composers
> don't know what our instruments do or sometimes even the
> range. I run across this quite often even with fine
> composer/orchestrators.
> > Mike Vaccaro
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> > From: "Clark Fobes" <claroneman@-----.net>
> > Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 3:09 PM
> > To: <Klarinet@-----.org>
> > Subject: [kl] Interesting C clarinet part
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> I was subbing for a rehearsal of Othello with the
> SF Opera a few days ago
> >> and was very interested to see a written low D in
> the 2nd clarinet part
> >> which in that section was for C clarinet. I
> wonder if Verdi was writing for
> >> a specific instrument or if he just did not know
> that the soprano clarinets
> >> did not go that low? Verdi was such a wonderful
> orchestrator by the time he
> >> got to his late Operas that you would think he
> would be aware of the range
> >> of all of the woodwinds.
> >>
> >> Clark W Fobes
> >>
> >>
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