Author: karlbonner82
Date: 2010-11-13 09:56
Go to the Buffet-Crampon site and look at the RC Prestige models. They advertise a D clarinet there. Now I can understand why some composers and musicians might want a D instrument; it would complement the eefer on the sharp keys. Without it, composers would have to call for an eefer - and that means during sharp key passages they'd try to avoid too many black notes.
Still, it's interesting to look at how many keys clarinets come in: Ab piccolo, F high soprano, Eb high soprano, D high soprano, C soprano, Bb low soprano, A low soprano, basset horn in F, everything lower in Eb or Bb. About the only that's kinda-sorta missing is the G mezzo soprano, given how rare it truly is.
Do recorders come in seven different keys (don't I wish)? What about flutes? Oboes? Saxophones? Modern trumpets? Trombones?
The only parallel I can think of is the natural horn, which typically comes with about 8 crooks if you don't count octave doublings. If you get rid of the E crook and replace it with Ab, you have the same set of keys as you do with the clarinet!
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