Klarinet Archive - Posting 001250.txt from 1998/03

From: Hat NYC 62 <HatNYC62@-----.com>
Subj: Urgent Plea
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:39:24 -0500

To all of you who play rental orchestral parts:

This should be obvious, but please don't mark rental parts with anything but
the most necessary items. This evening I went to a rehearsal and discovered
someone had previously marked the rental bass clarinet part I was playing. The
person had written in note names above every bass clef note. This was annoying
by itself, but to make it worse, the note names were all WRONG. The person
must have thought it was bass clarinet in C or something. What the last
performance of the piece sounded like, I don't know, but the person didn't
erase the markings in any case. This kind of thing seems to happen at least
half the time I get a rental part.

So I plead with you, if you are the type of player who must mark every breath,
every time the conductor changes the pattern, note names in transposition,
etc. COPY THE PART AND USE THE COPY. No one else can benefit from your
markings and the parts become impossible to read after a while.

Thank you for your attention.