Klarinet Archive - Posting 000179.txt from 2010/10

From: "Bill Hausmann" <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] New York Times, Oct. 22
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:39:22 -0400

It does LOOK LIKE a Leblanc paperclip contrabass, but it seems too small.
Perhaps it is a paperclip contra-ALTO? Who knew they even made one?

Bill Hausmann

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jennifer Jones
> Subject: Re: [kl] New York Times, Oct. 22
>
> It sort of makes me think of pictures 14 through 18 at:
> http://www.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780195343281/photo22/?view=us
> a
> The clarinet on the far right in the article is larger though.
>
> I guess it must be a contrabass clarinet, though I can't see any
> indication of that in the article. I conclude that because of its
> size and by eliminating the other instruments and Dan's indication of
> the instrumentation. Still can't find information about the
> instrumentation through google searches. The same picture occurs at:
>
> http://www.bethcuster.com/clarinet_thing.html
>
> and there is no eefer in that picture. That site does mention a
> contrabass alto clarinet, which I can't find any information about
> either. I am having trouble making sense of the name. Is a
> contrabass alto clarinet a clarinet with an unusually large range?
> i.e. spanning the alto, tenor, bass and contrabass ranges?
>
> -Jennifer

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