Klarinet Archive - Posting 000329.txt from 1995/04

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: E flat!
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 11:33:00 -0400

On Mon, 17 Apr 1995, Russell Wayne Householder wrote:

> Just out of curiosity. Has anyone ever seen someone march an Alto
> Clarinet?
> -Just curious

Yes, quite a few times in the "old days." In the mid-west and south in
the 1940's and 50's, it was not considered necessary or desirable to have
a different instrumentation for concert and marching bands. So, the
typical high school marching band was just a concert band which was
(relatively) mobile. I can't say that the alto and bass clarinets, or
even the occasional oboe or bassoon really added much to the tone of the
groups, but I know of some groups which had a really excellent
concert-band type sound when marching.

Edwin Lacy
el2@-----.edu