Klarinet Archive - Posting 000155.txt from 2010/01

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: Peter and the Wolf plus another full Boehm advantage
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:25:00 -0500

Peter and the Wolf is almost always played on A clarinet (at least for the
cat music), because very few B-flat clarinets have a low e-flat. But that is
what the composer wrote it for, a B-flat instrument and not the A.

And I also point out that on a full Boehm system with a low E-flat, one has
the option of what is called, "the long B-flat." One fingers a low e-flat
and depresses the register key. A b-flat a 12th higher is what one gets.
Sometimes the note is not well tune, but I was lucky and mine was.

Dan Leeson

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