Klarinet Archive - Posting 000635.txt from 2003/05

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: [kl] Take pity on a limey please
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 14:33:33 -0400

A point occurs to me.

Assume that the situation is as Jimmy suggests. I am a clarinettist and
play nothing else. I'm not interested in percussion and anyway have no
skill or experience. Most percussionists would (rightly) condemn you if
you suggested it took no skill to play percussion and I'd have to agree
with their position. If you saw me you wouldn't suggest that I dance - a
truly scary prospect - or play with a flag. Why would I want to be
involved in a marching band that doesn't want to interest itself - for
reasons good or bad - in my instrument?

Surely dancers should be employed to dance and clarinettist to play the
clarinet. I don't demand that the instrument is included (which will no
doubt be of comfort to the Amadeus Quartet and others!) in a group. If
it is - good - if it isn't - then I'm off to the pub.

Would someone please take pity on a limey and tell me what is going on
over there with this insistence on seeing woodwind players as fill ins
for other activities? I just don't understand!

Matthew Lloyd

-----Original Message-----
From: Jimmy Lee [mailto:jrlaudio@-----.net]
Subject: Re: [kl] something a little different for marching band...

Gary,
An Eb clarinet has no chance against 40 trumpets, 30 horns, and 20
trombones
with 8-10 tubas thrown in. Many marching bands have almost all brass
and
percussion. The WW players are used mostly on percussion, flags,
dancers and
etc. Worrying about balance, blend, intonation, precision, and musical
qualities is mostly a waste of time.
Jimmy Lee

Gary Van Cott wrote:

> An E-flat clarinet not be heard? Surely you jest. One e-flat
clarinet in
> the right (or wrong) hands can be heard over a huge clarinet choir. I
> don't think it would be any different in a Marching band.
>
> Gary
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> At 08:49 PM 5/25/03, you wrote:
> > On top of that, it wouldn't just be one E-flat clarinet, it would
have
> > to be a section of E-flat clarinets in order to achieve outdoor
blend. A
> > lonely E-flat clarinet player will never be heard.
> >
> >~SAM~
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