Klarinet Archive - Posting 000082.txt from 2006/09

From: "Blake Arrington" <klarinetteman@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Bass Clarinet for Beginners
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:12:14 -0400

AMEN!!!!!

J. Blake Arrington
Clarinetist, The United States Air Force Band

>From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.net>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Subject: RE: [kl] Re: Bass Clarinet for Beginners
>Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:01:12 -0500
>
>
> > 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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