Klarinet Archive - Posting 000099.txt from 2010/09

From: "Bill Hausmann" <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] breathing problems
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:54:17 -0400


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jennifer Jones =

> Subject: Re: [kl] breathing problems
> =

> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
> wrote:
> > Yes, the inverted Bonade (also available in a non-inverted form), the
> > Luyben, the Rovners, the Gigliotti and some others are all
> specifically
> > designed with rails, raised dots, or other features to hold the reed
> while
> > allowing free vibration, and at the same time creating grief for
> left-handed
> > people. =A0:-)
> =

> =

> The bonades I saw were all inverted with a plate. I guess the plate
> could be placed by the screw to make it non-inverted. Dodn't know the
> Gigliotti.

They are actually rails. The non-inverted variety has them on the screw
side.

Don't see where the grief for lefties is. Just get a
> regular ligature and turn it around or turn your clarinet around when
> you tighten the screws. Hell. When I turned my ligature around, I
> worked with the left handed screws as a righty. It wasn't *that* big
> a deal.

Some lefties get a little testy about living in a "right-handed world."
Inverting a standard ligature puts the screws on the "right" side for them,
but offers no other advantage, as the designed-to-be-inverted ligatures do.

> > If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!
> =

> My jazz band miked saxophones on solos. Seems sensible when you need
> a sax to stand out amongst a bunch of other saxophones. OTOH, could
> be a good opportunity for the rest of the section to learn how to play
> quietly and let the soloist do their soloing.

The band I play in mics ALL players. It actually louses us up for soloing,
since, in order for the saxes to stand and solo, they would have to adjust
the mics. So we just stay seated. The trumpets and 'bones stand all the
time, so it doesn't matter to them. My point is that, acoustically
speaking, the sax is a loud instrument. If it needs amplification to cut
through the din of the background, the problem is not the sax, but the
background. Back in olden times, the big bands had a mic for the vocalist.
Everybody else was expected to manage for themselves, and the folks playing
the background riffs backed it down so the solo could be heard.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!
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