Klarinet Archive - Posting 000273.txt from 2010/10

From: "Keith Bowen" <keith.bowen@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sopranino in Ab
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:00:26 -0400

I've played an Ab in an antique store; I didn't buy it because I was not
sure of the pitch. But its sound was a surprise: delicate and sweet
(probably because of a narrow bore). Nothing at all like an Eb.

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Pay [mailto:tony.p@-----.org]
Sent: 27 October 2010 20:14
To: The Klarinet Mailing List
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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