Klarinet Archive - Posting 000781.txt from 2002/07

From: "James Hobby" <jhobby@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Conservative Clarinet Ranges: How do these look?
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:38:17 -0400

I won't quote the ranges, but (excluding the contra, with which I have
little experience in the upper register) the ranges you list should be
playable by any good college-level student, and frankly, most good high
school players, especially if their instructor was a woodwind major. Of
course, has you say, your harmonic style could make it more "interesting",
regardless of the range. <g>

(I'm having a problem with some incoming freshman flute & clarinet players
at the local high school. The middle school instructor is a great brass
man, but seems to have turned out fairly weak woodwind players for the last
couple of years.)

Jim Hobby

>From: Bear Woodson <bearwoodson@-----.net>
>
> Based on the Conservative Suggestions of you
>guys, and the Bass Clarinet List, how do these
>Written Ranges look? Are these playable by
>MOST players (as in College-Level Students)
>and NOT just Super-Virtuosi?

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