Klarinet Archive - Posting 000013.txt from 2010/06

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] clarinets in original key
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:12:39 -0400

Karl, anyone who plays on an A bass (no matter what the instrument was that
was called for by the composer) will make you so incredibly macho, that
gorgeous nubile women will swoon at your approach. Why I had to sell my
bass in A because I was becoming sexually exhausted. Sometimes, even in the
pit while playing Nutcracker, gorgeous women players would lay down their
instruments and attempt in-the-pit seductions. I couldn't stand it any
longer so I took up the French horn and women stayed away from me in droves.
Perhaps a good middle-of-the-road instrument would be the Celeste because it
is so rarely called for. Ocarina would work too.

Dan Leeson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
To: "'The Klarinet Mailing List'" <klarinet@-----.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] clarinets in original key

> 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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