Klarinet Archive - Posting 000188.txt from 2008/11

From: Martin Baxter <martinbaxter@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Alternatives to bassoon for a quintet?
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:35:18 -0500

Has anyone tried an E flat contra-alto clarinet? I havee used an alto
clarinet,dropping the part by an octave.
Martin
On 13 Nov 2008, at 22:40, Roger Hewitt wrote:

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