Klarinet Archive - Posting 000184.txt from 2008/11

From: "Curtis Bennett" <curtis.bennett@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Alternatives to bassoon for a quintet?
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:35:28 -0500

Well, I've arranged them all myself. None are in tenor clef, so that's
not an issue.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Dan Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:
> 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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