Klarinet Archive - Posting 000201.txt from 2002/11

From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: reverse Mozart
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:05:37 -0500

On Fri, 01 Nov 2002 23:05:07 -0500 Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
wrote:
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>Perhaps at the start, but the concert band of today, and even back in the
>days of and before Sousa, etc., which grew out of the military band uses,
>relatively to an orchestra, OODLES of clarinets.

Well, sure. Look at the documentary evidence in The Music Man. Not only were
there 76 trombones in the big parade, and 110 cornets right behind, but there
were more than a thousand reeds popping up like weeds.

Personally, I think that 10:1 ratio is about right...

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
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