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 quarter tone clarinet
Author: diz 
Date:   2008-08-04 03:25

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Q...neClarinet.jpg

Strange creature.



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 Re: quarter tone clarinet
Author: Ryder 
Date:   2008-08-04 05:14

link was messed up...
I believe this is the picture you are speeking of in link form.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:QuartertoneClarinet.jpg

Wow, that sure is practical. (said with sarcasm, if you can't tell)

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Ryder Naymik
San Antonio, Texas
"We pracice the way we want to perform, that way when we perform it's just like we practiced"

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 Re: quarter tone clarinet
Author: diz 
Date:   2008-08-04 05:32

Ryder - about as useful as an ash tray on a motorbike ...

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 Re: quarter tone clarinet
Author: Lelia Loban 2017
Date:   2008-08-04 12:04

Yeah, but think of the advantages for a person born with polydactylism!

Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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 Re: quarter tone clarinet
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2008-08-04 12:41

I don't think any inbred farmhands will ever entertain the concept of playing the clarinet, let alone a quartertone one. But at least they can count up to fourteen with just their fingers!

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

The opinions I express are my own.

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 Re: quarter tone clarinet
Author: skygardener 
Date:   2008-08-04 15:08

To top it off... it's Oehler System!

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 Re: quarter tone clarinet
Author: Simon Aldrich 
Date:   2008-08-04 15:12

How realistic is the notion of learning this quarter-tone instrument?
Yet when one practices a piece with many quarter-tones one has the impression of playing a different instrument, so foreign are the fingerings one has to sometimes use.

Approaching the issue of quarter-tones from a different angle (that quarter-tones are produced in the mouthpiece and not with fingering combinations)
IRCAM developed a mouthpiece that produces quarter-tones.
The following is my account of trying this quarter-tone mouthpiece, submitted to this list about a year ago:

http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=240578&t=240578

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Simon Aldrich

Clarinet Faculty - McGill University
Principal Clarinet - Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal
Principal Clarinet - Orchestre de l'Opéra de Montreal
Artistic Director - Jeffery Summer Concerts
Clarinet - Nouvel Ensemble Moderne

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 Re: quarter tone clarinet
Author: John O'Janpa 
Date:   2008-08-04 15:34

Talk about GAS! I want one.

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 Re: quarter tone clarinet
Author: mrn 
Date:   2008-08-04 19:08

I know this sounds strange, but on closer inspection the quarter-tone instrument doesn't look like it would be much more difficult to play than a regular Oehler instrument. You push one key/pearl and the mechanism simply duplicates the same fingering on two different bores. Of course, you lose the ability to play half-hole fingerings that way, but everything's a tradeoff, I suppose.

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 Re: quarter tone clarinet
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2008-08-04 19:51

The rotary valve at the top selects which side is being played, but the fingerings still remain the same.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

The opinions I express are my own.

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 Re: quarter tone clarinet
Author: Koo Young Chung 
Date:   2008-08-05 01:01

Quater tone doesn't work.

If you want microtonality,the next step after 12 tone scale will be 29 or 53 tone scale system.

This 29 (or 53) equal temperament scale make s better intonations for

4th and 5th (and any other 12 scale intervals).

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 Re: quarter tone clarinet
Author: diz 
Date:   2008-08-06 05:49

Chris you made me snort out loud! Thanks!

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 Re: quarter tone clarinet
Author: skygardener 
Date:   2008-08-06 06:44

Koo- could you explain what you mean by, "Quarter tone doesn't work"?
Why 29 steps? And then 53? Why not 28 or 30?

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 Re: quarter tone clarinet
Author: Alfred 
Date:   2008-08-06 06:56

Not only does that seem impractical, it's by far the ugliest instrument I've ever seen.



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 Re: quarter tone clarinet
Author: Koo Young Chung 
Date:   2008-08-06 20:36

To skygardender:

I'll post a separate topic about 29 (and53) scale soon.

It's fascinating scale theory but nobody seems to know and nobody teaches.

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 Re: quarter tone clarinet
Author: EEBaum 
Date:   2008-08-06 21:00

They had one on display at the museum of music in Prague when I was there a few years ago. Darn glass case...


I just had another thought, though... the mechanism/tube that makes it a quarter tone lower... if they would extend it a bit further, you could have a combo Bb/A clarinet. No quick mouthpiece swaps, no transposition.

-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com

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 Re: quarter tone clarinet
Author: kev182 
Date:   2008-08-07 04:19

it looks scary and evil



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 Re: quarter tone clarinet
Author: skygardener 
Date:   2008-08-07 07:42

Alex- A 'Bb/A combo clarinet'!? That's just crazy talk! Who could ever find something like that useful?

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 Re: quarter tone clarinet
Author: cigleris 
Date:   2008-08-07 12:40

A combe clarinet was developed, Rendall talks about one in his book. The 'Clarinette Multiphonique' by Triebert. The patent was 1884 and was made bt E. Albert

Peter Cigleris

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