Klarinet Archive - Posting 000137.txt from 2007/07

From: "Bill Foss" <billfoss47@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] loud bands
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:01:17 -0400

I agree with Bill Hausmann COMPLETELY. I play in a 40's style "dance band"
and we NEVER mike any of the horns (saxes, trumpets, trombones) and
according to our audiences WE DON'T HAVE TO.

Oh well - enough of my shouting !

Bill Foss
US Army Retired
USC Aiken, Woodwind Professor
Director of Bands, Aiken Prep

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Hausmann" <bhausmann1@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 10:56 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] loud bands

> At 04:59 PM 7/15/2007, kurtheisig wrote:
>>Remember----throughout the entire Big Band Era, bands were not miced. Does
>>that mean that ALL players today are grotesquely incompetent to be heard
>>past the footlights?
>
> Possibly. Or that people are now so accustomed to the ear-piercing shriek
> of rock that they can no longer hear acoustic music. Remember, when Benny
> Goodman opened at the Roosevelt Grill (replacing Guy Lombardo) back in
> 1935 or so, they complained that he was too loud. And consider that
> today's mouthpieces and instruments tend to be louder and brighter than
> those of the '30s and '40s. Like I said, our band does not amplify very
> much. I should think people in the room would rather be able to converse
> without vocal strain, an idea that is completely foreign to rockers.
>
>
>
> Bill Hausmann
>
> If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!
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