Author: Bennett ★2017
Date: 2015-07-01 23:57
Isn't the A clarinet an historical curiosity, i.e., a device originally created when clarinets were built in multiple keys because today's modern keywork, which allows chromatic playing, didn't exist. Since composers, like Mozart, e.g., chose to write for A clarinet, modern manufacturers create instruments to facilitate music written for A clarinet. Yes, we could play everything on a Bb or a C or an E clarinet but we'd have to do a lot of transposing. Thus we avoid the plight of French Horn players who have to mentally transpose much of the classical repertoire from a whole bunch of different keys. Music publishers could republish everything originally scored for A to Bb clarinet - I'm still waiting. And, of course, many - perhaps most, A clarinets don't have a (written) Eb key; they just go down to written E
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