Klarinet Archive - Posting 000449.txt from 2002/04

From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Woodwind=sneezy
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:35:17 -0400

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:14:26 +0000, "Gary Smith" <asemsi@-----.com> wrote:
>
>Well, that's just what's so insidious about it. On a woodwind quintet
>discussion board I've been spying on, *they've* been talking about the
>*clarinet* being an important part of the *woodwind quintet* repertoire. All
>this despite the clarinet not being first on the score order, which I think
>is something that ought to be looked into.
>
>Then there's the fact that they include a french horn, which is actually a
>*brass* instrument, something I don't think any of us should stick at any
>price.

On the other hand, as I sit in the community band playing my plastic Vito
clarinet with rubber Portnoy mouthpiece, metal ligature, and plastic Legere
reed, it strikes me that "woodwind" is not a very good adjective for me,
either. There's not a piece of wood from lip to bell.

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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