Klarinet Archive - Posting 000699.txt from 1995/05

From: Tom Izzo <tji@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: weird keys
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 23:11:13 -0400

On Wed, 24 May 1995, John Baetens wrote:

> The Clarinet Polka!! This song has probably done more for the
> clarinet in modern times than anything else I can think of. It is
> certainly the tune that made me decide that I wanted to learn
> to play the clarinet. It was at a wedding back in the days when
> young kids went to weddings. Come to think of it, as a child,
> wedding receptions were about the only exposure I had to live
> music. And the Clarinet Polka was always played by any band
> that had a clarinet. Some even played it on Sax (yech!).
>
> By the way , anyone who plays this song in anything but C major
> changing to G, changing to F, is out of their minds.
>
I don't know, playing it in Ab has always been fun.
Tom
tji@-----.edu