Quarter tone clarinet

Quarter tone clarinet

A quarter tone clarinet is an experimental clarinet designed to play music using quarter tone intervals. Using special fingerings, quarter tones may be produced by a skilled player on a conventional clarinet. [cite journal
last = Heaton
first = Roger
title = The Contemporary Clarinet
In cite book
last = Lawson (ed.)
first = Colin
title = The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet
date = 1995
publisher = Cambridge University Press
pages = 174-175
] However, such fingerings are awkward in rapid passages, and results tend to vary from one clarinet to another. The German instrument builder Fritz Schüller (1883-1977) of Markneukirchen made an attempt to create a quarter tone clarinet to overcome these problems. It consisted of a single mouthpiece connected to two parallel bores, one slightly longer than the other; effectively these were two clarinets tuned a quarter tone apart. A single set of keywork controlled the tone holes of both bores simultaneously, and a valve was provided to switch rapidly from one bore to the other.

Music for quarter tone clarinet has been written by Alois Hába and Viktor Ullmann.

ee also

* List of quarter tone pieces

Notes


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