Klarinet Archive - Posting 000480.txt from 2002/04

From: "Jay Webler" <webler1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Octave repeaters vs. Twelfth repeaters
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 08:44:42 -0400

This is the reason why some of us teachers recommend the Clarinet before
studying the Saxaphone.
If you don't know anything else then no preconceived notions get in the way.

The other day I heard a 5 th grader, who has only been playing for a year
and half, playing a portion of a Stamist
Concerto. He will be in a master class at Kennesaw State in Kennesaw Ga.,
with Richard Hawkins as the Instructor.
This must mean that the Clarinet can't be all that difficult.(chuckle)

Perhaps if you could develop an octave repeating Clarinet and maintain the
tonal qualities we would that have to name
it the "Un-Clarinet". It would certainly open up another avenue of debates.
I can see the questions now, Like: Which is better the 12th repeating or
the Octave repeating Clarinet?
Or horror stories of people picking up the 12th repeating Clarinet and
thinking it was the Octave Clarinet.

Jay Webler
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subject: RE: [kl] Octave repeaters vs. Twelfth repeaters

> > From: Rick Campbell [mailto:ricksax@-----.com]
> >
> > As a good saxophonist, weak clarinetist, and sometime bassoonist, the
> > unique feature that divides us on the issue of "woodwinds" must be that
> > only, ONLY, the clarinet fails to repeat on the octave, a damnable
> > deficiency in my mind.
>
> Of course, the acoustics of the closed cylinder demand that 12ths repeat,
> not the octave.
>
> Mark C.
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