Klarinet Archive - Posting 000855.txt from 1998/04

From: "Emerald1" <emerald1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Ab Clarinet
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 15:41:17 -0400

I've only played the instrument a few times; but I never had problems
playing it; and I have quite large hands. I must disagree with it being
called a "novelty instrument". There's quite alot of literature out there
that calls for it. If you want to call something a novelty instrument, how
about an BBBb OctoContraBass Clarinet; BBBb Sub-contrabass sax; or a Bb
sopranissimo saxophone. Now those are "novelty instruments"!!!
Tristan Carpenter
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>
>Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 07:01:33 -0400
>From: "Justin Wood" <olio555@-----.com>
>Subject: Re: Ab Clarinet
>
>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>
>To: klarinet@-----.us>
>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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