Klarinet Archive - Posting 000481.txt from 2002/04

From: "Jay Webler" <webler1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Octave repeaters vs. Twelfth repeaters
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 08:49:51 -0400

Correction:

That would be Stamitz, I think. Oh, for a brain that works in the morning.

Jay Webler
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Webler" <webler1@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] Octave repeaters vs. Twelfth repeaters

> 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>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 11:50 PM
> 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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