Klarinet Archive - Posting 000108.txt from 2011/08

From: "Keith Bowen" <keith.bowen@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset Horns in G
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:24:40 -0400

Yes there were. The Mozart concerto was originally sketched for the basset
horn in G.

In modern terminology, a clarinet in G would go down to written E, and the
basset horn to written C. Yes there's an overlap and you could call the
latter a basset clarinet, but so far as I know, nobody has ever written
music for anything called a clarinet, pitched in G, going down to low C.

If you want to split hairs ad infinitum... you would probably make the
basset horn in G with a narrower bore than a clarinet in G.

Now for angels dancing on the head of a pin ....

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Baxter [mailto:martinbaxter1@-----.com]
Sent: 17 August 2011 10:26
To: The Klarinet Mailing List
Subject: [kl] Basset Horns in G

>>
>> 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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