Klarinet Archive - Posting 000270.txt from 2010/10

From: Deborah Goretity <goretitydeb@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sopranino in Ab
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:16:51 -0400


Hello everybody,
I've got a high Ab clarinet if anyone in the area ever needs to use it.
Deborah Marshall

> From: tony.p@-----.org
> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:13:43 +0100
> To: klarinet@-----.com
> Subject: Re: [kl] Sopranino in Ab
>
>
> On 27 Oct 2010, at 19:22, Simon Aldrich wrote:
>
> > In the recent Montreal Opera production of Verdi's Rigoletto, there
> > was an offstage banda part for high clarinet in Ab. Luckily it came
> > with the Ab clarinet part tranposed for Eb clarinet (written a forth
> > higher than the written Ab part).
>
> But listen, Simon; that transposed part might have stopped him trying to get the right instrument
> for the job.
>
> When I had to play one, I found one.
>
> (I didn't notice your player asking here, for example.)
>
> Now, I know you have a theory that composers don't care much what instrument is used.
>
> But perhaps Verdi did.
>
> Tony
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