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Re: Steve Fox New Creation

Author: Simon Aldrich
Date: 2010-03-08 23:45

I was hoping someone would point out the arrival of the Bohlen-Pierce clarinet.

>Is it just coincidence that the woman's name is Advocat, and she's advocating >new music?

Amy Advocat is one of my doctoral students at McGill and, yes, she is a good advocate for new music.
For those in the Montreal area, her doctoral lecture-recital is on May 9th at 8 pm at McGill. The lecture will be on the Bohlen-Pierce scale and instrument and she will play a recital of Bohlen-Pierce pieces.

>I wonder how it looks written...

Notation corresponds to traditional clarinet fingerings. If you see a G you finger a G bit a "real" G is not what comes out. They played around with different fingering systems and wisely came to the conclusion that any other fingering system would be too complicated for the performer and would add an unnecessary extra layer to playing the new instrument.

>Fox has had Bohlen-Pierce clarinets on his website for several years I believe...

Yes but he was not making them for the general public. He made two prototypes for a premiere performance and Amy's was recently completed. I believe hers is something like the third one made.

>Who wants to invest $1500 to get one and tell us how it plays?

It plays very well.

Obviously the clarinet is a logical choice to be a Bohlen-Pierce instrument.
The Bohlen-Pierce scale's "octave" is a 12th and since the clarinet overblows at the twelfth, it becomes a matter of figuring out where to drill the holes on this new instrument to make the new clarinet's notes correspond with those of the Bohlen-Pierce scale.
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Simon Aldrich

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

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