Klarinet Archive - Posting 000294.txt from 2004/12

From: David Oakley <guiomarks@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] The Clarinet Summit
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:12:23 -0500

I'm not enough of an expert on the sound quality of the lower clarinets to make a judgment call on that, but I did not see a contrabass clarinet mentioned in the liner notes so I assumed that the sound I heard was David Murray on bass clarinet.

David Oakley

Gary Truesdail wrote:

> Could that sound have been from a contra-bass?
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> GaryT
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> guiomarks@-----.net wrote:
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> >One piece in particular intrigued me: on the closing piece, entitled Mbizo, the bass clarinet notes were articulated in such a way that they sounded very much like and African thumb piano. Does anyone have any idea how this effect was attained?
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> >Thanks,
> >David Oakley
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