Klarinet Archive - Posting 000394.txt from 2004/09

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Alto Clarinet Questions
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:28:05 -0400

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:27:18 -0500, "Richter, Stephen R."
<SRICHTER@-----.edu>

>The alto clarinet is the "Bastard" of the clarinet family.
>Do your best. It is a finicky beast.
>
>

But it CAN be something very special.

We put together a small clarinet choir last summer out of our community
band. One of our alto sax players is an "experienced" gentleman who
happened to have his own alto clarinet. He brought it to our clarinet
choir rehearsal, and I was expecting the worst.

However, when he played it, I thought I would melt. Glorious, full,
smooth, woody; adjectives are inadequate. I was actually jealous,
because my own failed attempts at coaxing sound out of an old (and
abused) Bundy were quite painful.

I decided to stop making fun of the alto clarinet after that.

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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