Klarinet Archive - Posting 000002.txt from 1997/07

From: rteitelbaum@-----.com (Rob Teitelbaum)
Subj: RE: Dan Leeson Goes to Europe
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 01:29:45 -0400

All joking aside, I rather would like to see someone attempt the K. 622
on a kazoo. I mean, sure, it wouldn't have the sound of a basset horn or
clarinet, but think for a second about the phenomenal breath control that
would be required to make it sound halfway decent--after all, there's no
slurring on a kazoo! I mean, you'd basically be singing it, which by the
way is often a great exercise, I think. Besides, if Mozart were around
he'd probably get a kick out of it, as long as it didn't become common
performance practice..

Incidentally, a recently-produced film suggests that it was not in fact
Mozart's mother who convinced him to write the concerto for kazoo rather
than bass kazoo (or basset kazoo as it was then called), but that it was
actually his obscure contemporary Salieri, masquerading as his mother to
frighten him into composing the famous Requiem for Two Dueling Banjos and
Slide Whistle. Of course, this theory is mere speculation, and is
probably just rubbish.

Rob Teitelbaum
rteitelbaum@-----.com

PS I'm sorry, but I just couldn't resist.

   
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