Klarinet Archive - Posting 000352.txt from 2002/12

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] bass clarinet in A
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 00:30:58 -0500

At 11:47 PM 12/13/2002 -0500, Karl Krelove wrote:
>Of course, the paper is lighter and in those bindings it can be hard to make
>them stay open. I'm playing for a production of Annie this weekend with a
>book that is bound in such a way that it can't lie flat, so I'm fighting a
>closing book the whole night. And talk about bad keys! Why would anyone
>write tune after tune in E and B (concert pitch - resulting in my
>clarinet-tenor-bass clarinet book being constantly in F# and C#)? How much
>of a vocal problem could it have caused to move them either down or up a
>half-step?

I just played the same book last weekend. We had fresh, unused books of
the sort you describe. I worked the book as much as I could, bending it
backwards, etc., eventually getting to lie flat reasonably well. When I
played "Footloose" last spring, the books were spiral bound, which was very
nice! There did seem to be a disproportionate amount of music in "Annie"
in concert B. All those B#'s and E#'s mess with your mind! Not that the
technical requirements of that music are so demanding, but it is difficult
to read and keep track of all those sharps! There is no point in marking
them since EVERYTHING is sharp. I hope the vocalists and string players
were happy!

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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