Klarinet Archive - Posting 000888.txt from 1998/06

From: Dodgshun family <dodgshun@-----.nz>
Subj: Re: [kl] I'm Back!
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 17:36:00 -0400

At 10:42 PM 27/06/98 EDT, you wrote:
<snip>
Then we did "March to the Scaffold" by Berlioz (gotta
>love that clarinet solo at the end!)

Cool piece. We're possibly/probably playing the whole Symphonie Fantastique
in our youth orchestra later this year - we looked through it a couple of
weeks ago. The fifth movement has some hellish transposition - C clarinet
to Bb clar, in an awful key, as well as a very tricky eefer solo. But it's
cool. March to the Scaffold would have to be my favourite movement.

>But I broke my Gennusa mouthpiece after one orchestra rehearsal; it just
>slipped out of my hands and hit the ground and broke. I almost cried. So the
>clarinet prof gave me the only mouthpiece he had - an M13 lyre. I hated it.
>The sound was too bright and thin for my liking. It did not get along with my
>Opus. But those in emergencies can't be too picky.

I broke a Vandoren 5RV just before a concert once - had to borrow a
mouthpiece from someone in the concert band which had played just before us.
I had my clarinet standing upright (not on a stand - OK, that was stupid,
but I was 11 at the time) and it fell over and the mouthpiece hit someone
else's LH side keys. But it was a pretty awful mouthpiece anyway - I've
still got it, minus a big chip. I keep it to remind myself never to do
anything stupid like that again!

Anna

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