Klarinet Archive - Posting 000211.txt from 2004/12

From: Curtis Bennett <curtis.bennett@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] strange doubling?
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:31:21 -0500

I have a couple of fifes which I like to grab and play on occasion.
My wife always wanted a flute, so she just recently got a cheap one of
eBay that I think I've managed to play more than she has. But,
obviously those are both woodwinds.

I like playing the fife because they don't require any assembly. I
can just pick them up and play them. They're hard because they only
have six holes, and I don't know a lot of the fingerings for a lot of
the accidentals, so I pretty much have to transpose most things into
D-major, since that's kind of the "default" key like C major is for a
clarinet.

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:16:39 -0500, Lelia Loban
<lelialoban@-----.net> wrote:
> Daniel Fairhead wrote,
>
> >Do most clarinetests double only on woodwind instruments, or are there
> >many others who double on various other things. I double on drums. Any
> >other "strange" doublers?
>
> Piano probably doesn't qualify as a "strange" doubling, since piano was my
> first instrument. Besides, imho, learning the piano will improve nearly
> any musician. Back in the day, I took a few pipe organ lessons from an
> uncle who played professionally, but of course that's a wind instrument. I
> also experiment with a bunch of ethnic winds that I don't understand well
> enough to comprehend how badly I play them. Well, for *strange* doubling,
> I play bodhran, and if anybody wanted to hear a truly atrocious beginning
> cornet player, they could have come to my house a couple of years ago.
>
> I fell in love with the Haydn trumpet concerto as a child, and resented the
> grade school band teacher telling me girls don't play the trumpet (my first
> choice of instrument) or the drums (second choice, or maybe it was the
> other way around--I'm trying to remember back to the mid-1950s), so when I
> found a good-quality vintage cornet at a flea market, I decided to try to
> learn as an adult. After about a year, I suspected I was mostly teaching
> myself bad habits (although I could play up to C above the staff, if I
> approached up the scale from below instead of trying to nail it from
> nowhere, and if I weren't too fussy about the intonation). Therefore I set
> the cornet aside until the day comes when I get past the stage fright
> enough to take lessons and play in front of a teacher, which may be
> approximately when hell freezes. Then I tried the same thing with
> orchestral flute (I play recorders, but thought, hey, something LOUDER
> might be fun...) and got even worse results, so now I pretty much stick
> with the beak-mouthed winds (clarinet, sax, recorder).
>
> Maybe doubling isn't quite the right word, anyway, since I don't play gigs.
> I'm an amateur and I double only to entertain Shadow Cat, who also enjoys
> watching classic horror movies with me.
>
> Lelia Loban
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:32:34 -0600
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> From: Shadow Cat <nicekitty@-----.org>
> Subject: Re: [kl] strange doubling?
> Message-Id: <rodents-die-13-666>
>
> I'm making my stupid pet human type this. By "classic," she means movies
> like the 1945 version of "The Picture of Dorian Gray," which I do enjoy
> because it pays proper respect to a most powerful statuette of Bast; but
> believe me, I'd rather watch "Seed of Chucky" than listen to Lelia play the
> screech-stick.
>
> Ssssst!
> Shadow Cat
>
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Curtis Bennett

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