Klarinet Archive - Posting 000555.txt from 2001/05

From: Oliver Seely <oliver-seely@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] sound card
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 14:04:00 -0400

Our poor brothers and sisters on the saxophone. When I sequenced the
Rimsky-Korsakov Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Orchestra and first sight
read it with the band to which I belong, I got nothing but a withering
onslought of vituperation and calumny from the French Horn players about
how I had assigned several instruments no longer found in local music shops
to the alto, tenor and baritone saxophones and they're all "covering us up".

Tough, I thought, so I did it again when I prepared the Trombone Concerto
and haven't heard a peep from them. Ah, well, there's still the Oboe
Concerto to go, and I did the same thing there. We don't sight read that
till September. I'll report back then.

(On the other hand I DID mistranslate "tamburo" as "tambourine" and
everyone really gave it to me last night!)

8-)

Oliver

At 01:44 PM 5/23/2001 -0400, you wrote:

>"... but while you're marching in the rain, doesn't the *bell* on the sax
>fill with water?" - jerry
>"Yes, Jerry ... the bell would fill with water. (un)Fortunately, this does
>not affect the way a sax sounds." - Fred (postings on the Clarinet BBoard)
>

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