Klarinet Archive - Posting 000602.txt from 1997/10

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Clarinet players becoming sax players
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 22:52:00 -0400

At 09:12 AM 10/14/97 -0600, Steve Prescott wrote:
>Clarinet players becoming sax players...what is this world coming to?!
>
These days, if you want to play jazz it's about the only thing to do. And
much easier than for saxists to become clarinettists.

I also picked up saxophone late -- long after college. I now play lead
alto (doubling clarinet, of course) in a big band and will be playing an
alto solo in two weeks with my local community band (last season I played
bass clarinet). Now that I think of it, three of the five of our big band
saxes started on clarinet.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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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.