Klarinet Archive - Posting 000336.txt from 2010/10

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] H?
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 10:37:44 -0400

On 10/30/2010 06:38 PM, Dan Leeson wrote:
> Today, that is an anachronism, but it was not in Mozart's time, and we are
> stuck with clarinets in C, B-flat, A (and H) because of this phenomenon.

If I remember right, wasn't the availability of the clarinet in B a kind
of side-effect of the practice of using corps-de-rechange to construct
the different clarinets?
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