Klarinet Archive - Posting 001052.txt from 1997/02

From: "Katie S. Turner" <k-tturner@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Stupid Question No. 4
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 01:45:40 -0500

I was wondering as to the name of this piece and who composed it.
TIA

In a message dated 97-02-28 09:27:57 EST, Scott Morrow wrote:

<< 4) Do you really need the reed? >>

Scott,

In all seriousness, at one of the recent Coleman Chamber Music
Competitions
held at Caltech in Pasadena, California, for one of their offerings, a
university saxophone quartet actually played a complete 3 minute piece
by:
(1) fingering their horns and letting the audience hear the various pads
close (I love to do the same with my contrabass clarinet) , (2) blowing
into
the horns without the mouthpieces (playing the the "chicken neck" on my
contra like a tuba mouthpiece makes a sound rather like an alphorn in
heat),
and (3) making several other percussive sounds with their horns which I
have
no idea how they were produced. It was a great crowd pleaser but they
lost.

So the answer to dumb question 4 is NO!

Don Gross
La Canada, California

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