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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000022.txt from 2002/11

From: "David Wodtke" <dcwodtke@-----.com>
Subj: Creative Force (was Re: [Doublereed-l] Quote of the Day)
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:54:26 -0500

Hi All!

I had the list set to not deliver for a couple of years during which I had
no bassoon to play and other things in my life which made it impossible
anyway. I just got a call asking me to play in a local wind ensemble which
led to them lending me a nice Fox Renard last month.

In the interim I have been doing some chanting and learning to play the
harmonium (which apparently is a double reed instrument.) I read that it
most closely simulates the human voice. I've tried playing chants on the
bassoon also as a method of stimulating creative force. I like to use them
as warm ups too. I'm interested in your thoughts and experience with this.

Warm Regards, David Wodtke

>From: Oboeeee@-----.com
>
>
>"Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a
>simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand
>times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant."
>
>-Ralph Waldo Emerson