Klarinet Archive - Posting 000173.txt from 2008/11

From: Howard Shertzer <shertzhg@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Alternatives to bassoon for a quintet?
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:33:46 -0500


You are right. My wife is a professional cellist, and we play clarinet -
bassoon duets all the time.

-----Original Message-----
From: Curtis Bennett [mailto:curtis.bennett@-----.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:23 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Alternatives to bassoon for a quintet?

So, earlier this year, I formed a woodwind quintet, and invited an
oboe player from a local community band to join me. I quickly, and
easily found a good horn and flutist to round out the set, and even
found a good college-aged bassoon player who played with us for a
short time, but had to leave because he graduated, and his instrument
belonged to the school. I guess he wasn't terribly interested in
playing with us anyway. So, only joined us a few times.

So we've been without a bassoon player ever since then. The horn
player has a friend who plays cello, and I told her to ask her to join
us. In my (somewhat naive) mind, a cello player should be able to
read bassoon music without any problems, since both are in the same
key, and both read bass clef.

Can't a cello player read bassoon music without any difficulty? Am I
wrong in thinking this?

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Curtis Bennett

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