Klarinet Archive - Posting 000337.txt from 1999/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinets & Piccolo Trumpets
Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 23:31:18 -0400

At 05:39 PM 5/9/99 -0500, Nancy Marzec wrote:
>I've come to the collective wisdom of the group to figure out what a
>composer friend is asking for. He was wondering what needs to be done
>(as far as scoring) to get a piccolo trumpet sound from a clarinet. He
>said he heard it on a Peter Schickele broadcast. Anyone have any idea
>what piece of music he is talking about and/or the technique involved?
>Without knowing, I could only guess either that it was an Eb clarinet he
>was hearing (sort of relates to the timbre thread) or that there was a
>throat/embouchure thing involved, but if anyone heard the broadcast and
>and can give more specifics, or has a better guess, I'd appreciate the
>information.
>
Playing just the mouthpiece, perhaps?

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