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Klarinet Archive - Posting 000077.txt from 2006/09

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Bass Clarinet for Beginners
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:02:15 -0400


> Thanks Wayne, for bringing this up. IT IS common advice. It is also
> bullshit! The standard range for the bass clarinet goes up to the
> altissimo G.
> Composers write it all the time (maybe not in the easier band pieces).
> You simply
> cannot play the upper clarion, let alone the altissimo, with a super soft
> reed, It is this kind of thinking that has crippled bass clarinet playing
> for
> generations.
>
> Walter Grabner
> _www.clarinetxpress.com_ (http://www.clarinetxpress.com)
>
>

Walter,

Yeah! And Yea! And u da man!

Forest

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