Klarinet Archive - Posting 000233.txt from 2004/03

From: Andy Raibeck <klari_1@------.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Check this out!
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:10:40 -0500

Very nice, Ginger, but for readability, it would help if you could choose a
different background where the text didn't blend in so well... just a thought.
:-)

Andy

P.S. Good luck with your recital. I am a clarinetest who recently took it up
again after having stopped playing when I graduated high school (1980). I too
am planning a recital (for later this year), to include the Castelnuovo-Tedesco
sonata and the Brahms quintet.

--- Ginger Hill <Gigi1182@------.com> wrote:
> I'm working on it..
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/ny/NutHill/index.html
>
> Ok, it's a mess...
>
> ~Ginger
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BEresman@------.com [mailto:BEresman@------.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:27 AM
> To: klarinet@------.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] reasons for basset clarinets
>
>
>
> Dan Leeson Wrote:
>
> > The character of sound produced by any clarinet is affected by
> >extensions, and I suggest that the effect is invariably positive. I
> >have both a B-flat and an A that descend to low E-flat, and though I
> >rarely use the notes, the character of the instruments appears to me to
>
> >be improved by the presence of the extra length wood. By this I mean
> >to say that I also have a pair of clarinets that do not extend to low
> >E-flat, and I don't use them nearly as much as the ones that do. It's
> >because the extra wood creates a positive effect on the sound
> >character.
> >
> >I once asked a player why he enjoyed playing everything on an A
> >clarinet. He did not even own a B-flat clarinet, but transposed
> >everything. His answer was that the extra length of the instrument (as
>
> >compared to a B-flat clarinet) allowed him to produce a character that
> >was unavailable to him on shorter instruments.
>
> But Dan, if the part was written for a "standard" length clarinet, how
> can you justify using a longer instrument? The composer wrote
> specifically for a regular clarinet, and may very well have had that
> particular sound in mind. Seems to me that this is no different in
> essence than playing C clarinet parts on a Bb instrument. DIfferent in
> degree, perhaps, but not in essence.
>
> And while my tongue is somewhat in my cheek, there is a modicum of true
> curiosity about this. I would not hesitate to do as you suggest, if i
> had the instrument, but i am not a purist about that sort of thing.
>
> Brent Eresman
>
>
>
>
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