Klarinet Archive - Posting 000596.txt from 1997/10

From: "Donald Walkner" <dwalkner@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Clarinets players becoming sax players
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 16:19:28 -0400

I picked picked up the sax my eigth grade year. I have played in jazz band
for the last three years on tenor sax. I went from almost last chair in our
worst jazz band, to second chair in our best jazz band. All within one
year. If you can play the clarinet well, with a little practice the sax
isn't that hard to pick up.
Amy
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From: KIMBERLY L. RIECK <krieck@-----.edu>
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 1997 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: Clarinets players becoming sax players

> My friend and I picked up tenor sax our sophmore year in order to play in
> Jazz
> Band. Another clarinet player picked up alto sax. We had to compete with
> all the "original" sax players to earn our spots on the band and did so.
> The jazz saxophone section was made up of 3 players whose main instrument
> was clarinet and two players whose main instrument was sax. The clarinet
> players held the highest chairs. The point I'm trying to make is that it
> is not that difficult for a clarinet player to pick up sax and learn it
> well enough to beat out players whose main instrument is the sax. At
> least, it wasn't for us, and the sax players we competed agaist weren't
> awful.

I agree. It is not too hard for a clarinetist to pick up the
saxophone. I recently picked it up this semester and I have really
enjoyed it. Besides having my fingers confused on which instrument
that I am playing on at the moment, it has been really easy for me to
pick it up. But with practice, I know that I will overcome it.

Kimberly Rieck

UW-Superior