Klarinet Archive - Posting 000569.txt from 2001/03

From: Mark Thiel <thielm@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Martin Freres clarinet
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:54:57 -0500

Rien wrote:
>The instrument you bought, must have been on some ceiling many years

I love that expression -- when I first read it I was picturing some
restaurant
decorated with musical instruments with clarinets overhead gathering
dust.
I take it you mean what Americans would call "in the attic" --- no
doubt
British would call it something else again.

>I use this method mainly to get as used to playing the bass clef
>as the soprano clef. And, funnily enough: playing the bass clef on a
bass
>clarinet is no problem to me, but to play the same pieces in the same
clef
>on my A- or B-flat almost is like reading Chinese.

Isn't the mind a funny thing -- there's a lot of strange things going on
when
we try to make a process automatic. I was flattering myself that I was
getting pretty good at reading and transposing bass clef and then a
couple
of weeks ago I was faced with a baritone sax part. I thought that that
should be a piece of cake, and it wasn't too bad as long as I remembered
the
key; but whenever I saw, for example a natural on a note on the second
line
my auto-b.c. translator would go through the calculation "2nd line
natural -- B natural goes to C# ". Not too good when playing
a musical where most of the notes have accidentals on them.

Mark Thiel

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