Klarinet Archive - Posting 000370.txt from 1999/10

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Oboe ligature
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 07:55:41 -0400

At 08:54 AM 10/13/1999 +0100, Roger Shilcock wrote:
>
>I was thinking of 19th century French & British military bands, which had
>lots of oboes, and presumably marched - otherwise, what would be the point
>of them???
>
As someone else suggested, for marching, oboists typically played something
else - clarinet, sax, flute, even drums. For other musical duties, they
would revert to their double reeds.

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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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