Klarinet Archive - Posting 000181.txt from 2008/11

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Alternatives to bassoon for a quintet?
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:24:42 -0500

And with a baritone sax in E-flat, the transposition is very simple. Just
read the notes as if they were in the treble clef. If the bassoon part is
in tenor clef, you are on your own.

Dan Leeson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Curtis Bennett" <curtis.bennett@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Alternatives to bassoon for a quintet?

> Surely good baritone saxophonists are even more rare than good bassoon
> players!
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:46 PM, <kurtheisig@-----.net> wrote:
>> Curtis,
>>
>> A good Classical Baritone Saxophonist can fill in for bassoon.
>>
>> We just add 3 sharps and read bass clef like it was treble.
>>
>> I have been called on to play bassoon parts in chamber orchestra even,
>> and had the conductor much prefer the sound over bassoon!
>>
>> As conductor of the Heisig-Hastings Band, which Danny used to be the Bass
>> Clarinet player for, I freely substitute baritone sax for bassoon,
>> PROVIDED, we have a good classical bari player available. No rubber boot
>> players allowed!.
>>
>> I must confess that a lot of the secret is a good mouthpiece, and I make
>> those. We also use Vandoren #5 standard reeds, that have been balanced.
>>
>> Kurt
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>>From: Curtis Bennett <curtis.bennett@-----.com>
>>>Sent: Nov 13, 2008 9:23 AM
>>>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?
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>Curtis Bennett
>>>
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> Curtis Bennett
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