Klarinet Archive - Posting 000781.txt from 1999/09

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Impresive ?
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 16:37:12 -0400

My 2 cents.

First, I am amused that some of the longest and even the most
interesting threads have misspellings in the Subject box. I guess I
could say I'm not impresed!

Warming up is an important prelude to playing, whether one is just
practicing, rehearsing with a group or preparing for a concert.

Players of different instruments have differing agendas. For a string
player it might be applying the right amount of rosin, establishing a
general pitch before the tune up note time, limbering the fingers, etc.

For a wind player, bringing the instrument to a stable pitch that best
represents where it will play when balancing the room temperature and
the player's breath, getting the lips going for brass players or getting
in touch with the reed that will be used are part of what wind players
do.

Getting the head on straight is part of it too. I just hate going to a
symphony gig and having a trumpet player warm up on "Salt Peanuts" and
then take three or four choruses of this bebop song. While I like jazz,
this is not the right place for it. It doesn't set the stage for the
Brahm's symphony that will soon start, and it must be very distracting
to the early arriving audience. I find this sort of thing to be in very
bad taste.

Impressing someone with your favorite licks gets old too. Just how many
times to we need to hear Gershwin's clarinet gliss? Chances are, under
fire, this person would fold anyway.

Sometimes, I just toot the reed several times, do my finger warm up
silently and think about the music I'm about to play.

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