Klarinet Archive - Posting 000447.txt from 1997/01

From: Gene Wie <gwie@-----.edu>
Subj: Male:Female Ratio in clarinet sections
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 20:15:57 -0500

>I just wanted to say that I am also a new member of the list. I am currently
>a sophmore in High School and I am placed eleventh out of thirty some
>upperclassmen clarinet players in my school band program. I would also just
>like to comment that out of the upperclassmen clarinets in my school only two
>are males! I've always played in groups where we were lucky to have a male
>clarinet player. Along with clarinet I do play the alto sax and piano. I am
>also interested in some good mailing lists if anyone knows of any please do
>share them.
>
>Erika

This sounds really wierd. =) I attended high school
in San Diego, and for the largest part, most of the
clarinet sections were pretty evenly balanced in
terms of gender. It seemed pretty much that way,
except for a predominantly male trumpet section, and
a predominantly female flute section (surprise,
surprise). This also stems in part from the
conversion of woodwind players to other instruments
needed to boost a marching band's instrumentation.

Marching band (shudder @-----.

Gene Wie
gwie@-----.edu