Klarinet Archive - Posting 000420.txt from 2002/04

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Woodwind=sneezy
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:40:54 -0400

Surely *2* concerti - Mozart and Weber.
Roger S.
There *must* be a Hindemith one, too.

In message <F125ziCV2pJgdLpHsKO0000eceb@-----.org writes:
> 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
>
>
> >From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
> >Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> >To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> >Subject: RE: [kl] Woodwind=sneezy
> >Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:33:23 -0500
> >
> >?????
> >This list isn't changing name! It doesn't have the name "sneezy" anywhere
> >on
> >it!
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Tony Wakefield [mailto:tony-wakefield@-----.net]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 4:27 PM
> > > To: klarinet@-----.org
> > > Subject: [kl] Woodwind=sneezy
> > >
> > >
> > > List,
> > > I believe it to be quite wrong and short-sighted to think about
> > > changing the
> > > name of this clarinet list. 95% of this lists` subject matter is
> > > clarinet. I
> > > for one do not wish to sift thru` and eliminate 75% of content,
> > > from flute,
> > > oboe, and bassoon postings which is what we would have to do if the
> >change
> > > to "woodwind" potentially attracted these extras.
> > > WHY CAN`T WE HAVE AN EXCLUSIVELY CLARINET LIST. Why have we been
> >subjected
> > > to an appeal for funds, to then be dictated to when someone
> > > decides that the
> > > clarinet list is to be disbanded, and replaced with a woodwind
> > > list instead?
> > > Without any apology, I think this stinks. SOD THE FLUTE PLAYERS. SOD THE
> > > OBOISTS`. SOD THE BASSOONISTS`, and TALK CLARINET IN
> > > HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> > > Anthony Wakefield
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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