Klarinet Archive - Posting 000628.txt from 1997/12

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: R series Selmer Eb Contra
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 06:36:36 -0500

In fact, there has been (perhaps still is) a "tenoroon". I think it was a
fourth higher than the bassoon.
Roger SHilcock

On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Bill Hausmann wrote:

> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 22:45:43 -0500
> From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: Re: R series Selmer Eb Contra
>
> At 06:29 PM 12/11/97 PST, you wrote:
> > I suppose that Stravinsky was being silly when he wrote the opening
> > solo in the Rite of Spring for very high bassoon instead of, say,
> > oboe.
> >
> > Jeff Chan
> > jeff.chan@-----.com
> >
> >
> > on 12/11/97 at 6:31 PM, Bill Hausmann wrote:
> >
> > Actually, yes, but what is the point of playing altissimo on
> > contrabass when you could use clarion on bass, or possibly even
> > chalumeau on soprano to play the same note, most likely with better
> > tone and intonation? Yes, you can do it, and it is done. But isn't
> > it sort of silly?
> >
> Oboe and bassoon differ enough from each other to negate your argument,
> although I frequently harass oboists by referring to their instrument as
> the soprano "oon". (Why is there no tenor in the oon family?) In some
> cases, especially in recent music, a particular effect is desired requiring
> a particular timbre achievable only by stretching the range of an
> instrument. But, in the main, it is still silly.
>
>
>
> Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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> If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.
>