Klarinet Archive - Posting 000016.txt from 1999/07

From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Low Sax Notes
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 12:19:45 -0400

Anna Dodgshun noted:

<<<There's something about the sheer power and grunt of a bari that I loved!
Also, being able to anchor the rest of the section is a great feeling.>>>

I emphatically agree. In college, the only sax I owned was an "Olds
Parisien" alto, a stuffy little dog of a horn that was certainly not made by
the same craftspeople from Fullerton CA that turned out the wonderful brass
instruments. Consequently, to sate my hunger for sax, I played the
college's Selmer Mark VI bari. Loved it, still covet it. I used a Berg
Larsen 120/0 (about as open as the Lincoln Tunnel) and man, on those Kenton
charts the top of your head would vibrate!

I never got the same feeling from bass clarinet -- always felt that it was,
well, just a big clarinet. I thought the parts were boring. Now that I
have a finer appreciation for such things, I find the horns too expensive.

kjf

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