Klarinet Archive - Posting 000287.txt from 1998/09

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Short barrels
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 05:43:33 -0400

At 06:26 PM 9/9/98 +1200, Anna Dodgshun wrote:
>We had a discussion about playing higher in the youth orchestra here a
>couple of years ago - we were doing a season of the Nutcracker during a hot
>summer, and the pit was small and crowded (a band pit made to hold maximum
>of 25 people is not good to squash an orchestra of 50 into, especially with
>a large percussion department!). All the wind and brass players were all
>for it, but we got talked out of it by the strings.

Why in the world would you want to? What would it have gained?

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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