Klarinet Archive - Posting 000294.txt from 2010/10

From: Jennifer Jones <helen.jennifer@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] We are missing an instrument
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:00:38 -0400

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Dan Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:
> There were two kinds of B-flat clarinets made by the manufacturers. One w=
as
> a B-flat clarinet and the other was characterized as a B-flat clarinet HP,
> meaning high pitched. =A0The need for both instruments derived from the f=
act
> that when a player was contacted for a job, he invariably asked, "What
> pitch?" =A0And depending on the answer to that question, he chose the B-f=
lat
> clarinet or the B-flat clarinet HP.
>
> But that is not the same as a clarinet in B-natural, though it might work=
if
> one were required. =A0I once had a guy who brought such a clarinet to my
> attention, and I was stupid enough to think that it was just a badly made
> instrument. =A0I should have bought it and used it as a clarinet in B-nat=
ural.

Did it have equal temperament or mean tone temperament?
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