Klarinet Archive - Posting 000085.txt from 1998/09

From: Edmund William White <ewwhite@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Starting on Bass Clarinet (was Re: [kl] Children and Clarinet Playing)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 18:48:46 -0400

On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Gary Van Cott wrote:

> I know it doesn't work that way in our schools, but I believe that someone
> who is serious about the clarinet (even a serious amateur), should NEVER
> EVER make the bass clarinet their primary instrument.
>
Why not? I can safely say that the bass clarinet is my primary
instrument and I'm just as serious as anyone else at my university.

Ed White

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