Klarinet Archive - Posting 000244.txt from 2000/08

From: Spikus Spiegelus <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Is playing sax detrimental to clarinet playing?
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 04:18:02 -0400

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Bill Hausmann wrote:

> I learned to play tenor first (C-Melody really, and THEN tenor) so I got
> comfortable with the side carriage, which is all but REQUIRED on tenor.

Not really, maybe depending on how your body is built. For instance...

This spring, I had the devine pleasure of hearing UNT's One O'Clock Lab -
their top jazz lab out of like, 14 or something. We're talking absolutely
AMAZING guys...for at least half of the time they played, both tenors had
horns in front, between their legs like altos; they also sat on the the
edge of their seat. After seeing this, I tried it, and rather liked it,
but when sitting, like them, I go back and forth, because it's a little
weird on the back. But when I STAND and play, my tenor is directly in
front, with the neck strap totally extended.

Horn and strap may have a lot to do with it as well; currently I have a
Neotech on a Yamaha 52...the horn is borrowed, and pretty soon (in the
next week or so), I'll be getting my Cigar Cutter. If the neckstrap hook
is placed lower than on the Yamaha, then I probably won't be able to do
front carriage.

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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