Klarinet Archive - Posting 000038.txt from 2006/10

From: "Keith Bowen" <bowenk@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] A rainbow of clarinets
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:47:36 -0400

There will be some folk who insist on playing everything on the clarinet in
black and transposing the parts in red, yellow, etc.

Like all transpositions it will get easier the more you do it. But you and I
will insist that the composer had the color of the instrument in red in mind
when s/he composed the work, and will put a contract out on transposers. "We
know you CAN play it on a puce clarinet, but this violates the known
intention...".

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: klarinet-return-88850-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org
[mailto:klarinet-return-88850-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org] On Behalf
Of dnleeson
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 6:39 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] A rainbow of clarinets

Envision a composition that you are playing that is filled with
directions such as, "Change to clarinet in red," or "change to
clarinet in heliotrope." It makes my effors to get people to buy
a C clarinet in small potatoes.

Change to bass clarinet in A in purple.

It staggers the mind.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: dnleeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:26 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] A rainbow of clarinets

Is tartan a color?? I thought it was a design. So I ask once
again, what color could be used for an ugly sound? I propose
puce.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Bowen [mailto:bowenk@-----.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:07 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] A rainbow of clarinets

Tartan? It reminds one of bagpipes, a weapon of war rather than a
musical
instrument. It would play a mixture of angry, dark, blue and
passionate. No
yellow in the tartan, tho.

Keith Bowen

-----Original Message-----
From: klarinet-return-88846-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org
[mailto:klarinet-return-88846-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org]
On Behalf
Of dnleeson
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 5:58 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] A rainbow of clarinets

I think you may stuck a responsive chord in me. Passionate and
sensual music should only be played on a purple clarinet.
Cowardly music on a yellow one. Angry music on a red one.
Politically incorrect music on one of an uncertain color.

This would then lead into even greater subtlties: dark sound,
almost dark sound, hardly any dark sound, etc.

I'm trying to think of a color for an "ugly" sound. Any ideas?

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Bowen [mailto:bowenk@-----.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:46 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] A rainbow of clarinets

Dan

In your well-known obsession with "dark tone", which of course
can only be
achieved with a black clarinet, you may have neglected the
special acoustic
properties of other colors. Blue tone is of course used by jazz
specialists,
green tone by the English pastoral school and red tone by
unreconstructed
Communists. Have you never heard of Chairman Mao's Little Red
Clarinet? It
was an eefer, which accompanied recitations from the eponymous
Book.

Our basset horns are brown tone. I speculate that this must have
been
Mozart's favorite color.

Keith Bowen

-----Original Message-----
From: klarinet-return-88842-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org
[mailto:klarinet-return-88842-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org]
On Behalf
Of dnleeson
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 5:13 PM
To: klarinet@-----. org
Subject: [kl] A rainbow of clarinets

Looking through ebay today, I came across clarinets in blue, red,
black (of course), green, and goodness knows what else. I had no
idea that they were being made in this rainbow of colors. The
price was trivial with shipment from China. I can't say that
they are junk because I've never seen one up close but I wondered
what a clarinet choir would look like (not "sound" like) with
everyone having a different color clarinet.

Just a small journey into fanciful things!

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

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