Klarinet Archive - Posting 000701.txt from 1998/05

From: "Justin Wood" <olio555@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Anti-alto clarinet forces
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 17:07:10 -0400

What is it with the constant slamming of the Alto Clarinet. A good alto
clarinet sounds good...!!! Sort of like slamming piccolos or something.
Why? I love playing Alto, but even my band director does not like Alto
Clarinets....
Somebody want to help me here?

>>I'd play bass if I were you. First of all, I personally don't like the
>alto
>clarinet, nor do a lot of people that I have met.<
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>We are going to have to start an Anti-Alto Clarinet Defamation League
>(AACDL). My alto clarinet (a new Buffet) sounds very good (typical
>comment: "It doesn't sound like an alto clarinet"). I have only had it for
>a few months and hope that with practice I will be able to make it sound
>even better.
>
>However, with a good mouthpiece, even a Bundy alto clarinet can sound
>pretty good in the lower register.
>
>At our clarinet quartet concert last Sunday we did the Marcel Poot
>"Legende" which has a good alto clarinet part.
>
>Gary Van Cott
>Las Vegas, NV
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