Klarinet Archive - Posting 000012.txt from 2010/06

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] clarinets in original key
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:59:13 -0400

Well, we can certainly have the whole discussion again if there's interest
in it. I only wanted to react to "macho/wimp."

I've considered recently playing all 1st clarinet parts on my bass clarinet
to get a really "nice dark sound" on everything. I think Shostakovich 5
would sound really mellow on a Bb bass (an A would be even better, but I
can't afford one). I wonder if that will make me more macho than playing the
3rd movement solos on a regular Bb? :-)

Karl

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Leeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 3:54 PM
To: The Klarinet Mailing List
Subject: Re: [kl] clarinets in original key

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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