Klarinet Archive - Posting 000628.txt from 1997/10

From: Ian Dilley <imd@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: Clarinets players becoming sax players
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 06:46:21 -0400

Strangely I had a similar experience just yesterday. I tried playing a
bass clarinet for the first time. Even though it's many years since I
played a saxophone I kept trying to use my LH middle finger for first
space F and C above the stave.

Incidentally, on this bass clarinet I had a lot of trouble playing the
notes from G just above the stave up to C but above C it became a lot
easier. Can someone tell me if this is normal for bass clarinet, or was
it a bad instrument/mouthpiece/reed or is it just me?

In Dilley

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Hausmann [SMTP:bhausman@-----.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 1997 10:23 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: Re: Clarinets players becoming sax players
>
> At 12:23 PM 10/14/97 CST6CDT, Kimberly Reick wrote:
> >
> >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.
> >
> I find that the confusion problem is not too bad on alto, tenor, or
> bari,
> but soprano drives me nuts! Because of the way it is held, my body
> keeps
> trying to tell my brain I'm playing a clarinet!
>
>
>
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> If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

   
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