Klarinet Archive - Posting 000639.txt from 2003/05

From: "Rebecca Brennan" <rjbrennan1221@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Take pity on a limey please
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 16:48:19 -0400

Then there are the people like me that dance and play clarinet. I probably
could go off to college and major in dance and end up being a Rockette, but
I am too chubby:'-(...so I play clarinet.

>From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@-----.uk>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Subject: [kl] Take pity on a limey please
>Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 19:33:33 +0100
>
>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]
>Sent: 26 May 2003 13:04
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>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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