Klarinet Archive - Posting 000009.txt from 2010/06

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] clarinets in original key
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:53:38 -0400

Karl,

While I agree with you in theory, the fact is that it is very unlikely that
anyone will go and look up the many discussion we have had on this matter.

On important historical issues (and this is one of them, another being that
"nice dark sound," what ever that means), one has to keep repeating the
message every year or so. New people come on the group and they need to
have their heads shaped properly.

Dan Leeson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
To: "'The Klarinet Mailing List'" <klarinet@-----.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] clarinets in original key

> Keith, this is a little flip. I don't think macho/wimpy really reflects
> why
> many clarinetists choose to play on the "wrong" clarinet. This has been
> hashed out here enough times that the arguments pro and con are easily
> enough dug out of the archives.
>
> Karl
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Bowen [mailto:keith.bowen@-----.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 3:54 AM
> To: 'The Klarinet Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [kl] clarinets in original key
>
> Quite so.
>
> The argument is overlaid by the feeling that it is macho to transpose and
> wimpy to use a clarinet in C (for example).
>
> Keith
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Howe [mailto:arehow@-----.net]
> Sent: 02 June 2010 01:58
> To: The Klarinet Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [kl] clarinets in original key
>
> Why not just own a set of clarinets and play what is requested unless
> there is some over arching technical problem? A set of clarinets in
> A, Bb and C is no more expensive than an oboe and English horn. And
> we oboists use the oboe d'amore for Bach.
>
> Cheers
>
> RH
>
>
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