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Author: Aussiegirl
Date: 2005-01-09 02:21
Id just like to say thankyou to everybody who helped me with my swaps between clarinet and bari for the music man, our first show is on wedensday and apart from being tired from rehearsals everything is going great!
Fiona
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Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2005-01-09 20:21
Keep up the good work. Remember that you're making one of the "less common" transitions (anything to baritone), and adding baritone playing to your already present clarinet (and, by extension, bass clarinet) skills makes you all the more "usable" of a musician in the future.
People may study classical music when in school, but if they play to live they sooner or later end up doing shows. And, if you can't hack all the horns in a book on a pro production, you're not going to get the calls.
Now, all you have to do is learn to play the flute…and the oboe…and the bassoon…
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Author: diz
Date: 2005-01-09 22:09
Terry makes an excellent point ... shows are all about having the most amount on INSTRUMENTS in the pit and the least amount of PLAYERS.
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2005-01-11 04:44
Better the "angled horn" than the oboe, any day of the week. I have real troubles with the oboe embouchure, but found that I could manage the English horn with ease…just like a little baby bassoon. Only used it for Guys and Dolls ("I Gotta Horse Right Here, His Name Is Paul Revere", aka Ballad For Three Tin Horns), but it was a hoot.
The oboe's lip tension and control was just too much for me to master. I faked my way through one "oboe-lite" part once, and then prayed that I never had to do it again. Unfortunately, lightning struck a second time.
However, before I had to play it again, I lucked into one of those little staple-mounted mouthpieces for oboe doublers. It's a Chedeville, with its own little one screw ligature and mouthpiece cap, and it worked fine.
Runyon makes a single reed mouthpiece for the bassoon even today, sold with a mouthpiece cap and ligature. Don't know if anyone still offers the oboe one, though.
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