Klarinet Archive - Posting 000441.txt from 2004/06

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] switching between instruments
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:37:29 -0400

At 07:21 PM 6/27/2004 +0000, bryanchunt wrote:
>Hi yall,
>I'm a tenor sax/ clarinet player and i was wondering if there is anyone
>else who does the same. The reason is that i can switch from clarinet to
>tenor in about a minute or so, but when i go from tenor back to clarinet
>it usually takes about an hour of warming up to get used to the clarinet
>again. My first instrument was clarinet (played for just over 8 years)
>and i've only played the tenor for 1 1/2 years. Does it not make more
>sense that it would be easier to go from tenor back to clarinet instead of
>the other way around?
>P.S. Saxophone is sooo much easier than clarinet!! ;)

The clarinet embouchure is much firmer, so it does take a little to adjust
to that when switching back. I was also a clarinettist first and picked up
sax later. I don't have too much trouble mixing the fingerings, except
when playing soprano sax (which, held in front, tricks my brain into
thinking "clarinet") and bass clarinet (which somehow makes me think "tenor
sax!"). To be an effective doubler, though, as you need to be for pit
orchestras and big bands, requires that the switches be made pretty much
instantaneously.

Saxophone, with its octave register jumps, vs. twelfths, and all-pad keys
which require less precision in fingering, is indeed easier. It is also
easier to pick up sax knowing clarinet than it is to add clarinet, knowing sax.

A friend of mine has a website, "Doubler's World," for those of us not
content to play only one measly instrument. Check it out:

http://www.doublersworld.com/

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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