Klarinet Archive - Posting 000638.txt from 2003/05

From: "Samantha McDaniel" <jupitertc@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Take pity on a limey please
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 16:45:29 -0400

I don't see how woodwind players are "required" to play other instruments or
take on other parts, unless you are referring to Drum Corps International.
In that case, a woodwind player would need to learn a different instrument
or do colorguard. In marching bands, all woodwind players have a part, it's
just that they are not heard very well. Brass can project straight to the
audience, and saxophones as well. With woodwinds, it's a problem of
projection. Clarinets play directly to the ground, and that's why they can
not be heard. However, woodwind parts still exist.
Does that clarify at all?

~SAM~

>From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@-----.uk>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Subject: RE: [kl] Take pity on a limey please
>Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 21:23:34 +0100
>
>Wayne,
>
>I argue with nothing that you say. Indeed I agree with your basic
>sentiment which is that anything that gets people together and playing
>or whatever is good. My confusion is why woodwind players are REQUIRED
>to perform in other ways than woodwind players. If they want to then
>great. Only if it were me I'd hate it. I wouldn't want to - so why
>should I?
>
>I sense there is some sort of compunction here - which is my
>confusion....
>
>Matthew
>(Still a confused limey!)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Elgenubi@-----.com]
>Sent: 26 May 2003 20:09
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: [kl] Take pity on a limey please
>
>Matthew, a limey,
>I was in marching band 35 years ago, so I don't speak from recent
>experience.
>But I observe that marching bands here are a cultural phenomenon. Some
>think
>they are great, some think they are silly and not music. I think
>anything is
>good when people, particularly kids, get together to make something
>spectacular happen. Some high school marching bands are giant, with
>independent
>budgets, tractor trailers of their own, immense parent support
>organizations, and
>directors of almost star status. A kid that wants to be part of that
>may not
>care whether he or she is dancing or playing bass sarrusaphone. (That
>last is
>slightly dry humor.) Come to think of it, I played Glockenspiel in Navy
>boot
>camp drum and bugle corps.
>
>Wayne Thompson
>
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