Klarinet Archive - Posting 000821.txt from 1998/04

From: "Justin Wood" <olio555@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Ab Clarinet
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 07:01:33 -0400

I have the same problem, but I am an heir to one. I have spent hours upon
hours playing it, making some ODD noises in the process. It is an odd
instrument anyway.

*mumbling* It is in Ab...It is in Ab *ranting*

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 3:52 AM
Subject: Re: Ab Clarinet

>It seems physically impossible to play for some people. My own fingers
>are too thick to cover the holes of one of these things consistently,
>and this may well be true for others.
>Roger Shilcock
>
>
>On Wed, 15 Apr 1998
>Gary_VanCott@-----.com wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 14:03:06 -0700
>> From: Gary_VanCott@-----.com
>> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
>> To: klarinet@-----.us
>> Subject: Re: Ab Clarinet
>>
>>
>> Tristan Carpenter wrote,
>> > The Ab clarinet is known as either the sopranino or piccolo. . .
It's
>> an interesting clarinet, I'd love to see
>> more people pick it up.<
>> * * *
>> But what would they do with it then? Each to his/her own, but it is
>> certainly on the bottom of my wish list.
>>
>> Gary Van Cott
>> Las Vegas, NV
>>
>>
>>
>>
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