Klarinet Archive - Posting 001255.txt from 2000/06

From: mus_ldj@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] C clarinet
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:20:35 -0400

I see you're point. Also, we must believe that the instrument factories or
companies also supply popular clarinet artists with these obscure instruments for
promotional purposes as well. Couple that with them being single and making in
excess of $60Gs playing principal, then there you have it. Realistically, what
are you going pop off to your friends about: "I have a clarinet in every key!"
Come one, get real. This gets to be a vestige of ego.

Spike Spiegel wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 Tski1128@-----.com wrote:
>
> > expensive. The question I have about "C" clarinets and other pitch clarinets
> > is. Why don't we use them when the music calls for it? Do we expect that
> > every Clarinet no matter the key, is supposed to sound like a Bb clarinet? I
>
> Well, I think that a really good clarinetist can make them sound different
> and identical whenever necessary according to his/her needs at the time.
> In any case, I think the real reason is that it's simply not economically
> feasable for clarinetists these days to own an Eb AND a D AND a C AND a Bb
> and an A etc...some have a hard time just getting the basic pair, and
> after that, it's a toss up between a big stick or a little stick, and THEN
> you start aiming for the slightly more obscure instruments. The only
> people who I know can afford to purchase all those instruments can mainly
> do so because they also don't have a family to support.
>
> I for one would really like to get married, and if it means I don't get to
> buy a bass clarinet in A, then so be it! *laughs*
>
> J. Shouryu Nohe
> http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe
> Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
> "Never put passion before principle. Even when win, you lose."
> -Miyagi-san, KKpt.II
>
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