Klarinet Archive - Posting 000518.txt from 2000/04

From: Claudia Zornow <claudia@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Doubling/union rules
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:19:03 -0400

Ian Black wrote:

> Doesn't the US Musicians' Union have any rules about =

> maximum instruments? I think "trebling" (3 instruments) =

> is the maximum we're supposed to be doing in the UK.

Someone who is in a US union and has the book showing
what scale is can correct me, but I'm not aware of a =

limit, at least not in California. (Jim L., am I right?)
Musicians get additional pay for each additional instrument.
I suspect that some show books have instruments added for =

short unimportant parts just so the musicians can make more
(a favor by the arranger?).

In community theater the situation is different. Pay, if
there is any, is typically flat-rate, and musicians will
substitute instruments if necessary (e.g. play English
horn parts on clarinet). Some books even provide "double-
line" parts so a passage can be played on either of two
instruments.

I just finished a run of "Barnum" playing reed V, which
consisted of clarinet, bass clarinet, and baritone sax.
It's been a long time since I played reed V in a show, and
I had forgotten what a pain it is to schlep those large
instruments and set them up. Next time I'm going to hold
out for reed I or II. =

My Legere clarinet reed was ideal for the show. Its tone =

was perfectly acceptable, and I never had to worry about it
drying out even though there was only a little bit of
clarinet in the book.

Claudia

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