Klarinet Archive - Posting 000182.txt from 2008/11

From: Roger Hewitt <rogerclarinet@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Alternatives to bassoon for a quintet?
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:40:16 -0500

< snip > If the bassoon part is in tenor clef, you are on your own.

Indeed, while on the Bass Clarinet that's real easy!

Roger H

--- On Thu, 13/11/08, Dan Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:

> From: Dan Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net>
> Subject: Re: [kl] Alternatives to bassoon for a quintet?
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Date: Thursday, 13 November, 2008, 10:24 PM
> And with a baritone sax in E-flat, the transposition is very
> simple. Just=20
> read the notes as if they were in the treble clef. If the
> bassoon part is=20
> in tenor clef, you are on your own.
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> Dan Leeson
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> 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?
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> > Surely good baritone saxophonists are even more rare
> than good bassoon=20
> > players!
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:46 PM,=20
> <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,=20
> >> and had the conductor much prefer the sound over
> bassoon!
> >>
> >> As conductor of the Heisig-Hastings Band, which
> Danny used to be the Bass=20
> >> Clarinet player for, I freely substitute baritone
> sax for bassoon,=20
> >> PROVIDED, we have a good classical bari player
> available. No rubber boot=20
> >> players allowed!.
> >>
> >> I must confess that a lot of the secret is a good
> mouthpiece, and I make=20
> >> 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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