Author: Tom Puwalski
Date: 2006-04-11 18:15
Ok so I'm sitting here looking at the Selmer Paris clarinet catalog, I get to page 10-11 and I'm looking at the awesome centerfold of a Basset Clarinet and and a Basset horn when low and behold I spot that the Basset horn has a fixture to attach a lyre! I think this could be the only production basset horn designed to be used in a parade! My Buffet Basset prestige Basset lacks one of these, I'll bet Dan Leeson's custom built Fox lacks one of these.
I'm feeling a little fermished, If I get the urge to pull out the basset horn parts to some Sousa marches and put on my old uniform, ( it wouldn't fit I bet) I don't have a lyre holder. Oh I forget there aren't any basset horn parts for marches!
To Selmer's defense they did add one of these lyre holders to the alto clarinet. Which if properly used, would have a wooden alto clarinet out on Pennsylvania ave in sub zero weather for an Inaugural parade, where watching it crack could make for a very entertaining morning. This holds true for all makers of alto clarinets, not just Selmer!
Tom Puwalski, former soloist with the US Army Field Band, Clarinetist with Lox&Vodka, and Author of "The Clarinetist's Guide to Klezmer"and most recently by the order of the wizard of Oz, for supreme intelligence, a Masters in Clarinet performance
Post Edited (2006-04-11 18:42)
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