Klarinet Archive - Posting 001028.txt from 1999/03

From: "Buckman, Nancy" <nebuckman@-----.us>
Subj: [kl] FW: [kl] doubling
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:02:21 -0500

I can't figure out whether I sent this or not, so I'm resending it. Sorry
for any duplication.

Nancy

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> From: Buckman, Nancy
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 11:48 AM
> To: 'klarinet@-----.org'
> Subject: RE: [kl] doubling
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> From: Sheryl L. Katz[SMTP:slkatz@-----.com]
> Reply To: klarinet@-----.org
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 11:06 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] doubling
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> You've hit the nail on the head. The octave change is what gets me. I
> get some pretty interesting results when playing clarinet on sax and
> vice-versa. What really makes me laugh is when I've made that very
> mistake and the conductor can't figure out what's wrong. Sometimes it's
> fun to keep playing it the wrong way just to keep him on his toes.
>
> Nancy
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>
> I agree with this. I used to think, especially in my first few months of
> playing sax, that sax was easier than clarinet. Now that I've spent a
> year
> of hard work attempting to learn to play the sax well, I believe that the
> sax is as difficult, or even more difficult, in its own right, than the
> clarinet. They are both plenty hard, just different
>
> I now think that a saxophone player brings a lot of woodwind skills and
> musical skills to the clarinet, and an embouchure that has had a lot of
> strengthening. The embouchure may be a bit different and not as trained
> as
> for the clarinet, but it's not the same as starting from scratch. The sax
> player has to learn more fingerings and also has to learn how to cross the
> break smoothly. When I switch between instruments in the middle of a
> song,
> the part that messes me up the most is the differences in changing
> octaves,
> not the embouchure.
>
> Seems to me that doubling is in itself a skill, and we tend to think of
> playing the instruments discretely, yet in a doubling situation we may be
> putting one instrument in our lap and grabbing another one. Putting one
> down, and immediately switching embouchure, key, fingering, etc. is a real
> skill and I wonder how much anyone actually teaches or practices this, yet
> it's the reality in some doubling situations. It's one thing to play each
> instrument well in its own right, it's yet another to play each well
> enough
> not to mess up the sound of the group while attempting to smoothly
> transition from one to another.
>
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