Klarinet Archive - Posting 000302.txt from 2003/03

From: "Anthony Wakefield" <tony-w@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Piano and Clarinet Technique
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 06:00:13 -0500

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From: "Christy Erickson"
> Does anyone else here play piano and clarinet?

Quite a few I would expect. Certainy moi, and Ian Black also, The Scottish
one!
My quirk is that whereas I play jazz on piano, and just a modicum of
accompanying my clarinet students for their exams, I only play "straight"
clarinet. This of course includes theatre work, but it is esentially
"reading". I attribute this "crazyness" to the piano being my first
instrument, where I quickly became interested in jazz, and so on the
keyboard, the chords under my fingers come thick`n`fast. I didn`t start
clarinet until my late teens, so I can`t get my fingers round a C - D9b5 -
Dm7 - G9 - C fluently enough on clarinet to carry a jazz chorus, BECAUSE all
I see in my mind`s eye are the black`n`white keys of the joanna, not the
clarinet finger movements required to "busk".
Incidentally, what is this tune called for which I`ve quoted the chords
above for? If an ENGLISHMAN comes forward before an American, then I`ll
withdraw my sponsorship to send Tony Pay back to college!! :<) If Mr Pay
comes forward, I`ll do an arrangement for him.
Tony W.

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