Klarinet Archive - Posting 000330.txt from 2010/10

From: Sean Osborn <feanor33@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] H?
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:01:41 -0400

No, I wouldn't call a 5-key clarinet fully chromatic, but in Vienna,
for those operas, they had better clarinets.
Maybe Mozart was thinking of all the country places the Operas would
be performed.
I was thinking about the concerto which abounds with chromatic
scales, and was written for a 13-keyed instrument I believe, though
it was on the forefront of technology for the time.

Of course, this brings to mind the question I've always had: If they
realized that adding a key or two made the clarinet more versitile,
why did it take them 100 years to add enough? I would have added a
whole bunch more right away!

Sean

>Sean
>
>I wouldn't really call a 5-key clarinet fully chromatic, would you? In fact
>even where it could play the notes in sharp keys, the manuals of the period
>make clear that these notes were intended for trills, not for scalar
>passages. They show separate fingering charts for scales and trills, and the
>former are much more restricted.
>
>Keith

www.osbornmusic.com

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