Klarinet Archive - Posting 000415.txt from 1994/02

From: "Jay Heiser, Product Manager, Govt Systems" <jayh@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Big A (stick your foot in it)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 09:06:01 -0500

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-->From: "Michael B. Favreau" <MFAVREA1%ITHACA.BITNET@-----.EDU>
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--> C'mon people! You mean to tell me that in a technical section
-->in a jazz ensemble or Concert Band that its appropriate (musically
-->and visually) to roll the horn over and stick your foot in it?
-->What about an oom-pa section in a march? I don't see any way that
-->you could place this note in tune and avoid a slipped disc at the
-->same time :).
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-->Michael B. Favreau
-->Ithaca College
You don't really need to roll it. Just cross your leg with
your left ankle over your right knee and when the low A comes
along, stick your heel in the bell while simultaneously lipping
it down.

12 yrs out of college, I can't remember how often I had to do
this, but I played bari in the jazz band for 3 yrs and it had
no low A.

At College of Wooster, marching & concert bands always wore
the kilt, but the only time I played bari was when Karel Husa
came to conduct his Sax Concerto -- I don't remember any low
A's -- it probably would have been memorable on stage in a kilt.
(jazz band wore street clothes).

The only time I marched bari was at the State Fair Band when I
wanted to stand next to a specific bass cl player, and my mind
wasn't on my music.
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