Klarinet Archive - Posting 000952.txt from 2004/07

From: Haschengeliebter@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: upper altissimo
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:27:15 -0400

My high school band was like that most of them didn't want any of the others
to hear them in fear they might not play well...when in the end it sounded
poppy and the director was yelling all the time for us as a whole to play
louder...even when some of the girls would want to solo they would not do it right
(pitch and volume all messed up)...so he looked to me to play it out...it used
to make me so mad because it isn't hard to change the volume and it isnt hard
to get a good sound...but they would not do it unless he yelled a lot...oh
well...i guess that's why they are not going into music...

~Krista~

P.S. they played some pretty tough clarinet stuff too...

In a message dated 7/27/2004 1:50:23 PM Pacific Standard Time,
arlyss1@-----.net writes:
It was a specific situation I found myself in, in which it simply seemed
that, regardless of what the overwhelming pitch level of the band was
(usually established by the trumpets, since they were the loudest
instruments!), the other clarinettists seemed to prefer to either stay
at a certain pitch level, even if it sounded awful, OR, they preferred
not to play in that register at all.

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