Klarinet Archive - Posting 000360.txt from 1994/02

From: "Jay Heiser, Product Manager, Govt Systems" <jayh@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Big A (stick your foot in it)
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 13:56:49 -0500

-->From: "Michael B. Favreau" <MFAVREA1%ITHACA.BITNET@-----.EDU>
-->Subject: Re: Big A
-->To: Multiple recipients of list KLARINET
<KLARINET%VCCSCENT.BITNET@-----.EDU>
-->Message-ID: <9402240853.aa05819@-----.COM>
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-->Jay,
-->
-->Are you serious about sticking your foot in the bell or were you just
-->joking because the notion that you might actually be serious about
-->this being a viable option scared the crap out of me. To my knowlege neither
-->Yamaha or Selmer make Baris without Low A's currently. Please tell me
-->you're kidding :)
-->
-->Michael B. Favreau
-->Ithaca College

This works like a champ, I'm surprised you've never seen it. Its an
old dance band trick. None of the schools I've been to had a
bari with a low-A, so if the music called for it, you just did what
you could. Ditto with show music -- nobody ever provided me with
a bari with a low-A. Now we've got a couple folks in the area who've
got Yamahas so they don't have resort to that.

They were both in a sax quartet with me for a while (not officially
disbanded) and I remember some low-As, but wasn't really paying attn,
so I don't know how frequently they occur in the music we played. For
show music & jazz band, I haven't run into an instance where the foot
in the bell didn't work.
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