Klarinet Archive - Posting 000015.txt from 1995/06

From: Frances M Robinson <intm5@-----.UK>
Subj: Keys/my family is going mad
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 04:27:44 -0400

All this stuff about keys has come just at the right time. You see, my
dad, who has millions of classical CDs(not orchestras, he likes chamber
music and STRING QUARTETS best. He and his friend have about 80
recordings of the shostakovich quartet. They compare them all, etc.) but
he can't play an instrument. He is going to buy a 'cello, so I am giving
up being nasty about cellos. They're much better than violins, I've
always known that. Anyway, he can't read music or anything, and he'll
always be a mathematician before a musician so he's learning about keys
etc., before he's even got a cello. He plans to redesign the stave, he
doesn't reckon it's a very good system. so you heard it hear first. He
hasn't really thought it out yet, but he says that all thats important is
the pitch interval, so what hapeens is there are notes written down to
show the pitch interval and each transposing instrument has it's own
perspex thing woht the lines on it. But he''' lrobably change his mind
about this. So does anyone know of any other non-conventional ways of
writing down music??? please tell me. He's also annoyed with it because
in music a fifth is a bigger interval than a third, but in maths it is
the other way round. Anyway, he's good at the cello, we tried one out the
other day and it sounded really nice. See what Cambridge graduates do
when they need a new direction?

My sister is going to get a flute. So I can't be horrible about
flautists any more, either, but she's good at it. and lastly, my mum has
taken up the harmonica. She practices hours each day. She's not exactly
little Walter Horton yet, bu its coming on nicely.
So, anyone know of any compositions for Bb/C clarinet, flute, cello and
harmonica???
(One of you could always rise to the challenge and compose one....not too
modern sounding please....)

Frances
PS A friend of ours works in a record shop and one day a little old lady
came in and asked for a blues disc by 'deaf orange robertson' It's for my
son she said. It turned out she meant blind lemon jefferson!!!!

PPS Get the C back on Saturday, first orchestra rehearsal with it
Monday--oboe part here we come!