Klarinet Archive - Posting 000107.txt from 2011/08

From: Martin Baxter <martinbaxter1@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Basset Horns in G
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:25:58 -0400


>>
>> Basset clarinet is in A or Bb, basset horn is in F and has always had
>> the 'extension' to low C.
>>> Best, Keith

A bit of "hair-splitting"!
I understood that there were also basset-horns in G. As there were, and are, clarinets in this key, why aren't the G basset-horns classed as basset-clarinets?
Martin
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