Klarinet Archive - Posting 000627.txt from 1998/11

From: "Stephanie Hooker" <clarinet_88@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] No We're NOT weak!
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:16:37 -0500

Hang in there girl! More power to ya......

--Benny

>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:45:10 -0500
>From: musicgirl82@-----.com (Ginger Hill)
>Subject: [kl] No We're NOT weak!
>
>Far be it for me to blame the band directors...I'm studying to be one.
>I gues I'm just one big contradiction after another here, but:
>I have to disagree with "Band directors often place there weakest
players
>on bass clarinet" because i play 1st clarinet in my high school Wind
>ensemble, plus am normally in the top of the section in the band which
I
>play the bass in. My dad (also the band director) put me on the bass
>because the low brass section is weak and I was the only clarinetist
>who's had experience on the bass.
>the only reaso I wrote that bass clarinets are always being forgotton
is
>because i had just come from my band rehearsal and was a bit depressed
>because hwile my own father had us going through bass lines, he
promptly
>forgot that wonderful bass sitting in front of the tubas. :(
>Bass clarinet isn't so bad. :)
>
> ~Ginger
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Band directors often place there weakest players on bass clarinet and
>then
>promptly forget about the part. Why? A couple of reasons. First,
they
>don't understand how to teach the bass clarinet, the instrument is a
pile
>of doo doo, the mouthpiece is awful, and the reed is too soft or too
hard
>- not to mention those terrible LaVoz brands (sorry, couldn't resist a
>did
>there).
>
>The other half of the equation is that, if the composer simply doubles
>the
>euphonium/baritone line with a bass clarinet or tenor sax, bass
clarinet
>is not necessary - we have plenty of saxophones to help support what is
>obviously just a bass line. The better composers know how to use bass
>clarinet and how to use that voice as an extension of the clarinet
family
>(or saxphone family - fairly interchangeable).
>
>Band directors are not the only culprits!
>
>Roger Garrett
>IWU
>
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