Klarinet Archive - Posting 000697.txt from 1997/08

From: benevolent1@-----. Horney)
Subj: Re: marching for looks, not sound
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 11:05:49 -0400

I like your law, and how true it is. I claim to be no expert in the
playing of the French Horn; I actually always wanted to play French Horn,
but my parents couldn't afford one (they couldn't afford a clarinet
either, we borrowed one or I would be stuck in tuba-world because the
school owns them). When I had saved enough (it took me about 4 years to
save 1/3 of the price) my parents told me that they would pay for 1/3 of
the instrument cost, and pay for some lessons (my grandfather, an oboe
player, would pay the rest). By that time I was pretty good on the
clarinet, so I didn't have to abandon one to play the other. I find the
hardest thing about marching with one is keeping my head at the same
angle, but I can't do that on the clarinet either.

Have fun!

Sarah
benevolent1@-----.com

On Sat, 16 Aug 1997 23:45:49 -0400 Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
writes:
>At 09:34 PM 8/16/97 -0500, you wrote:
>The French Horn is one of the untapped voices on the field, and I
>enjoy
>>playing it immensely.
>
>Isn't French Horn hard enough to play well STANDING STILL????
>
>Side note: French Horn, as well as oboe, follow what I have dubbed
>the
>"Law of Perversity of Musical Instruments" which states: The more
>beautiful an instrument sounds played by a professional, the worse it
>sounds played by a beginner."
>
>
>
>Bill Hausmann
>bhausman@-----.com
>451 Old Orchard Drive
>http://www.concentric.net/~bhausman
>Essexville, MI 48732
>http://members.wbs.net/homepages/z/o/o/zoot14.html
>
>If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.
>