Klarinet Archive - Posting 000207.txt from 2011/03

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset Horn Question
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:11:36 -0400

Whew.... :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Leeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 9:46 AM
> To: The Klarinet Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [kl] Basset Horn Question
>
> Nancy, except for one brief statement in your note, we are quite in synch.
> The single difficulty I have is when you suggested that the basset notes are
> not part of the system. If you mean a fixed and universally accepted
> system, I agree. But if you say that they are foreign to the use of the
> basset horn, that is a different story since the basset horn is not a basset
> horn without them. Le Blanc, which used to (and may still) make such an
> instrument, called it "the Clarinet in F. It was an instrument pitched in F
> that simply went down to low E. I played one and behind which there is an
> interesting story.
>
> Leinsdorf was conducting a major orchestra and playing the Stravinsky
> symphonies of wind instruments, which has a part reading "clarinet in F."
> At one point in the rehearsal, he looked over at the player (who was using
> his basset horn) and asked, "What are you playing on?" The player took one
> look at the part and immediately answered, "This is a clarinet in F."
>
> Leinsdorf said, "that's good. In Europe it is sometimes played on a basset
> horn."
>
> Dan Leeson
>

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