Klarinet Archive - Posting 000024.txt from 1995/03

From: Michiya Nishino <mnishino@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: eb sop. clar.
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 21:15:50 -0500

> this list stuff is all new to me, so bear with me while i learn where ev
> erything is and how it works. i do a lot of eb sop. clarinet playing an
> d wanted to know your thoughts on the subject. if you play this*&%^%in
> strument, please list specs, likes, dislikes adventures, etc. that 'll
> do for now. anyone else who struggles with this instrument, please comm
> ent.
>
> nancy buckman
> zneb@-----.bitnet

I guess I can tell you an "adventure"--I've played the E-fer once my
sophomore year in high school on Gunther Schuller's _Eine Kleine
Posaunenmusik_, but the part wasn't extremely significant, and I didn't
really gain much experience from playing it. However, my next encounter
with the Eb was my senior year in high school--playing Hindsley's
transcription of _Till Eulenspiegel_. Quite an adventure, I must say.
I played on a Vandoren 3 Eb reed, a titch softer than the V12 4s that I
play on my Bb.

I was fairly successful with the part--however, the recording that my
director chose to use on our CD was the *one* time I "recomposed" a note
of the third E-fer solo in the "trial and execution" segment of _Till_.
I must have overblown the fourth note, since it came out as a G concert
instead of C. Oops :(.

Michiya Nishino