Klarinet Archive - Posting 001455.txt from 1998/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Please help me / Chalumeau / clarion etc
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 17:53:12 -0400

At 08:42 AM 5/29/98 -0400, Fred Sheim wrote:
>At 07:10 AM 5/29/98, you wrote:
>>Lam wrote:
>>
><snip>
>
> Klose' said high G was the
>>reasonable limit of the instrument, and advised against going higher. To
>>judge by some of the posts here on the Klarinet list, there are a few
>>students out there, and possibly even some professionals, who spend time
>>trying to produce the altissimo notes, probably to impress other
>>clarinetists. Their time would be better spent blowing long tones and
>>playing tech exercises, scales and arpeggios.
>>
>>Lee Hickling <hickling@-----.net>
>>
>
>
>So how would you play the Spohr concertos, which ascend to high A, or even
>the Weber concerto, which ascends to high Bb?
>
Klose' was probably just showing his sympathy for the clarinetists'
neighbors (and their dogs).

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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