Klarinet Archive - Posting 000118.txt from 1997/07

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: Dan Leeson Goes to Europe
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 21:31:38 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.28
> Subj: RE: Dan Leeson Goes to Europe

> On 30 Jun 97 , Rob Teitelbaum wrote :
>
> > 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!
>
> Yeah but you probably have to 'hum' ..... what 4 octaves !!??? Yikes, I
> couldn't hum the Bb version of K622!!.... difficult range. Besides my kazoo is
> in the shop ......

A matter of terminology here: the work must be played on a basset kazoo,
not a traditional kazoo of normal compass,
and it must be a basset kazoo in A. I know a guy who failed an
audition because he played an excerpt of K. 622 on a standard kazoo
in B-flat. Very foolish and unmusicological of him to have done so.

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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