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Author: LIZZIE
Date: 2001-03-25 23:59
is it true that it is bad for your r-13 to be out in the weather cause @ my school we march a lot and play @ football games!~,
lizzie
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Author: Nate Zeien
Date: 2001-03-26 00:18
Playing outdoors is bad for <i>any</i> wooden clarinet. If you have a plastic horn, I would recommend using that for marching band. -- Nate Zeien
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Author: Fred
Date: 2001-03-26 00:36
Nate's right, Lizzie. A marching band is not a place to take any fine wooden clarinet that you care about. A plastic horn would be fine, but here's a couple of other thoughts.
Have you ever considered picking up a sax and learning to double on it? I wish I had done it. If you really want to pursue music, you'll end up doing it later anyway, so how about now? In all fairness, clarinets are never very appreciated in marching band anyway where volume is everything. You don't have to be great at it - I know you would do just fine. PS - I'm thinking about doing it now - tenor and soprano !!
Or, if you really want to stay on clarinet, how about picking up one of the better metal clarinets on ebay and have a showpiece out there on the field? They are really fun to play. If you want to do this, search the bb for "lande" as the author. Jim Lande probably knows more about metal horns than any poster here and has shared his knowledge from time to time.
And lastly, have fun.
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Author: David Kinder
Date: 2001-03-27 23:50
If your band director is anything like mine was, he'd be very mindful of "uniformity" on the field, so I wouldn't recommend buying a metal clarinet. I owned two and they never played right.
I personally disagree with clarinets never being appreciated in marching band. Of course, it depends on how your director thinks a marching band should be. We always thought it should be a moving concert band, so we chose music that helped with that concept. We had about 25 clarinetists one year, and we were heard when the music was designed for us to be heard.
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Author: DrBert
Date: 2001-04-03 17:14
First of all... if your a good Clarinet player... don't pick up sax!!!! I went from Clarinet to sax, and I wish I would have just stuck with clarinet and not started on sax. Also don't get a Metal Clarinet, they are cool for show, but they don't really play all that well.
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Author: Dee
Date: 2001-04-03 22:22
DrBert wrote:
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> First of all... if your a good Clarinet player... don't
> pick up sax!!!! I went from Clarinet to sax, and I wish I would
> have just stuck with clarinet and not started on sax. Also
> don't get a Metal Clarinet, they are cool for show, but they
> don't really play all that well.
That's only true of the cheap ones that were turned out by the ton for the student & marching band trade. There were some decent intermediate and pro ones made although these are of course hard to come by as there weren't that many of the better ones made.
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