Klarinet Archive - Posting 000570.txt from 1997/11

From: alchev@-----.com (Al Chiavarini)
Subj: Mitch Bassman <mbassman@-----.com>: Re: Right Horn
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 15:35:11 -0500

I too have a fast rule regarding where the clarinets go on the stand. I
have a three peg
inline stand and the A always goes in the middle. The B flat on the
right.
I never pick up the wrong instrument but once in a while Ihave started to
play the wrong instrument from bar one--- not notating the clarinet
indicated at the top.
It doesn't take long to feel stupid.

Al Chiavarini
alchev=juno
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From: Mitch Bassman <mbassman@-----.com>
Subject: Re: Right Horn
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 11:04:07 -0500
Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971114110407.007dc720@-----.com>

At 05:00 PM 11/13/97 -0800, Jim Lytthans wrote:
>Re: picking up the right clarinet.
>
>During a rehearsal years ago (with a conductor who we had little
>respect, let alone confidence) the 2nd clarinetist and I started the
>Sibelius Violin Concerto on the Bb, instead of the A. It really was a
fluke, <snip>

The several posts on this subject raise the question: am I the only
person
who has a consistent approach for where he places his clarinets on pegs?
Flukes aside, I am unlikely to *pick up* the wrong instrument because I
consistently position the A clarinet on the left peg and the B-flat
clarinet on the right. (If I'm also using an E-flat or bass clarinet,
it's
difficult to mistake one of those for the A or B-flat, of course.) Unless
the conductor jumps suddenly between passages using different
instruments,
I'm not likely (aside from those flukes) to have the wrong one in my
hands.
Those inevitable times in rehearsals when the conductor decides to go
back
to the middle of the A clarinet passage just after we've switched to the
B-flat instrument demand either a missed entrance or a brief period of
transposition, depending on the circumstances.

--Mitch Bassman

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