Klarinet Archive - Posting 000039.txt from 2001/11

From: lubydjackson@-----. Jackson)
Subj: Re: [kl] Band vs orch eefer range
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:39:20 -0500

Thanks for this!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Virginia Anderson" <assembly1@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] Band vs orch eefer range

> on 31/10/01 9:15 pm, "Debbie Shipton" <canbobfixit@-----.com> wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:38:22 -0000
> > To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> > From: "Debbie Shipton" <canbobfixit@-----.com>
> > Subject: Re: [kl] Band vs orch eefer range
> > Message-ID: <OE186rzcSANF5gUbupo00019d00@-----.com>
> >
> > I know!!! It's just psinful to listen to as well as play!!
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Luby D. Jackson" <lubydjackson@-----.net>
> >> I don't want to sound ugly, but having an altissimo "A" on eefer is
just
> >> ridiculous. I mean, the highest I can get on eefer is a good high F.
It
> >> just hurts to bad and I get a bloody lip trying to go any higher. I
use
> >> 3.5s on my eefer.
> >>
>
> Honestly, a pretty, non-painful top a can be played without force and
> without blood. It just takes work and trial and error. Mike is right -
the
> biting just makes it harder to achieve.
>
> By the way, excuse what's kind of like spam, but this is rather related.
> The Experimental Music Catalogue has some clarinet music available. I
think
> I wrote some time ago about their free bass clarinet piece offer, but they
> also have a free pdf. sample page from Chris Hobbs' clarinet quartet (so
you
> can see if it's right for your quartet). More pertinently to this
> discussion, they have a free pdf sample from the first page of the solo
part
> of _Swiftly to Virginia_ for Eb clarinet and piano. All you have to do is
> send a request to <info@-----.uk> and they'll send you the
> sample by return e-mail. You can also check these out on the web site
below
> for a fuller description, as I don't want to take up the bandwidth on this
> list.
>
> I claim affiliation, as you can see by my address - and the Virginia in
> _Swiftly to Virginia_ is me.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Virginia
> --
> Virginia Anderson
> Leicester, UK
> <vanderson@-----.uk>
> Experimental Music Catalogue: <http://www.experimentalmusic.co.uk>
> ...experimental music since 1969....
>
>
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