Klarinet Archive - Posting 000310.txt from 2005/06

From: "Keith" <100012.1302@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] RE: klarinet Digest 17 Jun 2005 09:01:02 -0000 Issue 6057
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 07:07:26 -0400

There is one called "The Doctor" that has a voice simulator for ONE two
three four ONE two three four .. Etc. It's a scream.

Keith Bowen

> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:12:43 -0700 (PDT)
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> From: Wayne Thompson <wthompson222@-----.net>
> Subject: Re: Bouncing Babies, More specifically Metronomes.
> Message-ID: <20050617041243.65898.qmail@-----.com>
>
> In the recent discussion on learning rhythm, Tony Pay
> mentioned an idea for a metronome that produced a 'larger'
> beat, a beat with some kind of prelude before the actual down
> stroke. He said, ".....and ordinary metronomes are so
> insistent. How about including a sound that could go,
> schooh, schooh,...etc, or sschoohh, sschoohh,... etc, or
> ssschoohhh, ssschoohhh... etc, in various settings?"
>
> If there was any comment to this, I missed it. I think this
> is a great idea. As a beginning teacher of beginner
> clarinetists, when I introduce the metronome, I explain that
> it may take a while to learn how to use a metronome, and then
> they will become invaluable. I believe that they are hard to
> learn to use because they are so unnatural, i.e. the beat
> happens with no warning. In real life, in a band, in a duet,
> in a drum circle, in circle of 5 year olds clapping their
> hands to a song, there are numerous cues that the beat is
> about to happen.
>
> Any metronome manufacturers out there? This would be pretty
> simple technically.
>
> Wayne Thompson

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