Klarinet Archive - Posting 000419.txt from 2002/04

From: Audrey Travis <vsofan@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Woodwind=sneezy
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:40:08 -0400

Rolling on the floor laughing!
Audrey

Gary Smith wrote:

> Dear Mark
>
> I heard that we're all going to be required to learn all the woodwind
> instruments in order to be able to continue posting on this list. I must beg
> you to reconsider. While I currently play clarinet and saxophone and intend
> to take up flute if I can ever get my schedule freed up a bit because so
> many of the jazz books require it from time to time, I frankly have very
> little interest in the double reeds. And really, Mark, the way you keep
> bringing up the bassoon is a little insidious. Why should I spend years
> studying an instrument that has one concerto in its repertoire, and looks
> like an 18th century rocket launcher?
>
> Furthermore, when you consider all the different variations within the main
> woodwind instrument families, the sheer financial investment, not to mention
> storage space, I think you should realize that not all of us live in a
> warehouse. I already have 2 Bb clarinets (well, three, counting a Bundy I
> loaned to a student and hope never to see again), an A, an Alto sax, a
> tenor, and have a bari sax that lives with me, but we're just friends. Just
> to stock up on the clarinets I need to meet this silly new requirement of
> yours (not to mention the "no-transpose" rule I keep hearing about), I'll
> need an Ab, Eb, C, Alto, Bass (1 in Bb and 1 in A), and Contrabass. Frankly,
> I think I'll be tapped out long before I get to the Contrabassoon, let alone
> the English horn.
>
> Concerned,
>
> Gary

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