Klarinet Archive - Posting 000988.txt from 1999/03

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] You would understand
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 19:43:17 -0500

At 04:13 PM 3/17/99 -0800, Kevin Fay wrote:
>With that said, I feel your pain. I would never, ever start a student on
>saxophone--switching to clarinet is so much harder than the other way
>around, and if they do want to do this for a living, they will likely need
>to play both anyway. When I was teaching privately, it never took me more
>than six weeks to get a clarinet kid to play sax as well as they played
>clarinet. I have never met a "saxophone player" who was able to get a good
>clarinet tone, even after years of study. So, IMHO (and if you can), get
>this lad on a clarinet ASAP. Explain to him how cool doubling is (marital
>strife notwithstanding)--that clarinets get the cool parts in band, but lead
>alto is nifty too--and that he is more likely to get both if he works on his
>clarinet chops. Oboe and flute he can pick up later.
>
>I firmly believe that clarinet doublers make the best saxophone players
>anyway. The clarinet embouchure is like weight lifting--even if you don't
>do it in public, you get stronger.
>
I absolutely agree!

Bill Hausmann
Clarinetist since 1968, Saxophonist since c. 1980 (Also emergency doubler
flutist and recent oboe purchaser).

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://www.concentric.net/~bhausman
Essexville, MI 48732 http://members.wbs.net/homepages/z/o/o/zoot14.html
ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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