Klarinet Archive - Posting 001206.txt from 1999/03

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Instant Sax (long)
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 22:37:59 -0500

From: Marty Marks <RxReed@-----.com>
> I while back I tried to learn to play the recorder. Now that's an
easy
> looking instrument. No keys. Just holes and a limited range. I
thought I'd
> be playing the entire baroque repertoire in a few months. What a
revelation
> that was! I had to quit because to play at the level I would be
satisfied
> with was too time consuming.

While waiting around at New England Conservatory a month or so ago I got
treated to a practice session involving a young lady working on a
concerto for recorder for her recital (I don't know the name of the
piece) in one of the halls. I had no idea of the beauty and complexities
of that "easy looking instrument". I have respect for that instrument
now!
----
Mark Charette@-----.org/clarinet
"Cards by Aimee", http://www.sneezy.org/Aimee
"The phenomenon is too variable for proper study" often
translates from "I don't know how to get musicians to do
anything twice the same" - A. H. Benade

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