Klarinet Archive - Posting 000303.txt from 2004/12

From: Molly Venneman <molly.venneman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] "Strange doublings"
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:54:34 -0500

Hey...

I also double on clarinet and steel pan - lead pan to be exact.

I'm just a college student right now majoring in music ed, but I've
played in the steel band for 4 years now and love every minute of it!
I just hope to continue with it after I graduate.....

Molly Venneman

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:02:25 -0800, Ormondtoby Montoya
<orm1ondtoby@-----.net> wrote:
> Jay Webler (who taught both percussion and clarinet) used to question
> whether a drum is a 'musical' instrument because it lacks (except for
> timpani) a definable pitch. Sometimes he jested that he tuned his drum
> to "A thud".
>
> But isn't percussion the earliest musical instrument in history, and
> doesn't percussion speak at a more 'primitive' level to our sense of
> sound than pitched instruments do?
>
> Hence while playing both wind & percussion is (grammatically speaking) a
> form of doubling, I don't think that it fits into the same category as
> doubling on two pitched instruments.
>
> It happens that I attended a performance tonight of Christmas carols and
> church music that were arranged in Latin style for bongos, tambourines,
> two acoustic guitars, and flute. The flute player, who was *fully*
> competent on flute and tremendously exciting to hear, was also the lead
> bongo player. His flute rhythms were noticeably complex and varied,
> often non-duple and/or syncopated, and he almost never played full
> legato.
>
> I'm convinced that this fellow was operating at a different level of
> 'musical thought' than doublers on pitched instruments do.
>
> FWIW.....
>
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