Klarinet Archive - Posting 000324.txt from 2002/07

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Doubles
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:30:34 -0400

Replying to Bill Hausmann, Kevin Callahan wrote,
>You double on sax, I double on trombone. Anyone
>else want to share their doubles (or triples, or etc...)?

As an amateur, I don't qualify as a doubler in the usual sense, but I annoy
Shadow Cat with the following:

keyboards
(Mostly piano, but my current instrument is an electronic simulacrum that I
often set up as a pretty good harpsichord or as a poor excuse for an organ.
My husband says I play all these winds because I'm trying to buy an organ one
pipe at a time.)

clarinets: Eb sopranino, Bb soprano, soprano in A and Eb alto
Wanted: Bass and contrabass, as soon as I can find the money and the right
instruments.

saxophones: Bb soprano, Eb alto, C Melody, Bb tenor, and my favorite, Bb bass

recorders: F sopranino, C soprano, F alto, C tenor

bodhran drum
There would be other drums, if I didn't suspect they'd be grounds for
divorce.
;-)

beginner on orchestral flute, cornet and trumpet
For fear of teaching myself bad habits, decided to put those aside unless /
until I can gin up the nerve and the time to take lessons.

miscellaneous folk winds
These include a pair of suo nas and about two dozen assorted flutes,
whistles, etc., none of which I can play worth a sneeze.

Kevin, I'll bet you get a lot of answers on this thread. Just tallying up in
my head what instruments other people here have talked about, I think the
*majority* of us are doublers.

Lelia
(Dreadfully envious of Jim O'Briant's serpent!)
LeliaLoban@-----.com

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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 00:32:01 -0700
From: "Shadow Cat" <13witchcat@-----.666com>
Subject: RE: [kl] Doubles
Message-ID: <crushyourscreechstickwithapiledriver=666>

I'm making my stupid pet human type this. She wrote,
>(Dreadfully envious of Jim O'Briant's serpent!)>

Don't you DARE bring one of those vile monstrosities home! I have to run for
the basement when you play that Godard person's serpent CD. If a real
serpent breaks into my house, then next time you leave, I *will* evoke an
Elemental and clear this whole place out, screech-sticks and all!

She brought home something else from the D. C. Big Flea on Saturday. It's in
a malodorous big black case. I know that stink. It's only a saxophone, she
claims, because she knows I don't object to saxophones as much as I object to
*some of the others.* Hah! It's too small to be one of the acceptable
saxophones. It's one of those squealing false saxophones that's really a
larval form of v*cu*m cl*an*r. Something's alive in there, something nasty,
and it's awake, and it's trying to get out. I can feel it squirming and
heaving when I sit on the case. If she opens it, I'll rip its smelly lining
out and see what *else* is in there. Yesterday evening, I lay on top of the
coffin for six hours and hissed a binding spell on the monster inside, with a
ward on the locks that's made them difficult to open, but *she* always finds
a way--the cl*r*n*ts tell her how, I'm sure of it. They're probably getting
ready to squeal a counter-spell the next time she practices this wicked form
of magic at their instigation.

It sounds as though many of you have serious infestations of screech-sticks
and their mutant cousins. You should give them to cats and we will be happy
to dispose of them for you, free of charge.

Sssssssst!
Shadow Cat

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