Klarinet Archive - Posting 000256.txt from 2010/10

From: John Brophy <johnbrophy0@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinet and organ (was: Weber concerto No. 1)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:37:04 -0400

Best instrument with loud organ is a Breton bombarde: no half measures

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Lelia Loban <lelialoban@-----.net>wrote:

>
> Tom Bassett wrote,
> >>I've wondered though.. if organ is the better way to go for orchestral
> >>reductions. They have the pedals so there can be 3 staves of music, they
> >>can sustain pitches, and they have stops for different timbres. If you
> >>have a big enough organ, it can probably crank up to the volume of an
> >>orchestra too. >>
>
> Yup. And an over-enthusiastic organist playing a pipe organ that's bigger
> than big enough can drown out an entire orchestra with the greatest of
> ease.
> Make that two orchestras. And the Navy band.
>
> If you plan to play solo clarinet or chamber music with this organ, I
> suggest you arrive at rehearsal early, before the organist gets there.
> Bring sticky notes. Go look at the organ, and I don't mean just the
> console
> and the pretty facade pipes - although you do want to take note of the
> number of keyboards (More than two? Be afraid, be very afraid....) and
> stop knobs (Lots and lots? Uh-oh.) and look up atop the facade to see
> whether metal pipes that look like long, Renaissance trumpets stick out up
> there. Those are horizontal trumpets and they're not just decorative.
>
> Then find the little door that leads to Wonderland, the back room the
> audience doesn't see, where most of the organ really lives. If it looks
> like the Redwood Forest back there, with crawl walks and overhead catwalks,
> then go back out front and peruse the console again. Look for stop knobs
> labelled Trompette en Chamade or Tromba Horizontale (or anything else with
> "Horizontal" or "en Chamade" in the name - these are various labels for
> those horizontal trumpets up top), Harmonic Trumpet, Harmonic Tuba, Fan
> Trumpet, Field Trumpet (or similar names such as State Trumpet or Military
> Trumpet), Post-Horn (of any nationality...), Diaphone (or any permutation
> thereof, especially Contra-Diaphone and Diaphonic Diapason), Cornet des
> Bombardes, Flauto Mirabilis, Grand Mixture, Harmonic Clarion,Tuba Magna,
> Contra Tuba, Solo Tuba, Contra-Bombarde, Contra-Trombone, Scharf Mixture,
> Jubalflote, Ophicleide and, above all, anything whose name includes the
> word Thunder or Stentor, especially the Stentor Bombarde. Beware of any of
> these names translated into other languages, too. Organ-builders are very
> tricky, oops, I mean *creative*, when it comes to labelling their stops.
>
> All of these can be superb pipes, in the right kind of solo organ music --
> say, Franck's "Final," where the general idea is to blow the audience over
> backwards. As you identify these bellowing, roaring, screaming monsters,
> write "Out of Order" on the little sticky notes and stick them on those
> stop
> knobs. Don't worry, the organist won't suspect a thing. Organists are
> used
> to half the instrument being out of order.
> ;-)
>
> Lelia Loban
> http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/Lelia_Loban
>
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