Author: Scottical
Date: 2018-01-03 23:31
Thanks for the recommendations, all.
The instrument was purchased from Ripamonti at Midwest last December. Being the odd little horn it is, I've had to make opportunities to play it. I've played Eb parts in community bands, for example, by transposing down a fourth. I've also played Bb parts up an octave in outdoor music (marches, school pep tunes, etc.) by transposing up a second.
As far as nomenclature, if we follow the tradition of other wind instruments, a true "piccolo" clarinet would be pitched in Bb, an octave above the soprano. While such instruments had been used historically (I can think of one in a museum), they're now obsolete. Woodwind reference books seem to disagree on the nomenclature, too.
The instrument seems not to have been used in American professional bands since Patrick Gilmore's time. Sousa omitted it from his band on the basis that "it was too shrieking!" (his words). A.A. Harding had at least one A-flat player in his enormous concert band at the University of Illinois for a time. He seems to have been interested in obscure instruments, as there are records of heckelphone and tarogato players in his groups, too.
If you want to hear some altissimo on G sopranino, check this out, but don't have your volume up all the way!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUq4XSNraFo
Post Edited (2018-01-03 23:33)
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