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Author: jez
Date: 2002-02-19 09:58
Further to the discussion, below, about unusual things to make a clarinet from; How about unusual things to do with the ones you've got.
I can get the barrel from my B flat on to the bell tenon of my E flat. This gives the possibility of a clarinet with a mouthpiece at each end. With a (very good) friend it's possible to play simple duets on one instrument, although the manufacturers don't seem to have put much thought into the intonation problems at the 'upside-down' end!
Our bass-clarinettist does a very realistic impersonation of a didgeridoo, which always appears when we have an Australian conductor or soloist.
I can't resist telling the story of a young Aussie conductor who came to do 'Dances of Galanta'. He stood on the rostrum first thing Monday morning and announced "KODALY"
The whole orchestra replied "G'day"
jez
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Author: Brian
Date: 2002-02-19 11:50
Jez,
I havan't laughed this much in a long time! Thanks for sharing!
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Author: Don Poulsen
Date: 2002-02-19 12:38
I suggest you check out the CD <i>This is not a Clarinet</i> by Evan Ziporyn. On this CD, which was featured on NPR's <i>All Things Considered</i>, Mr. Ziporyn gets unusual sounds and effects out of soprano and bass clarinets. It is available at Amazon.com and other CD retailers on the Web.
I believe a digeridoo is basically a long cylindrical tube. That is also the description of a bass clarinet without a mouthpiece and with most of the holes closed. So, if you have a bass clarinet, you have at least two instruments in one.
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Author: laur
Date: 2002-02-20 03:39
Hey Jez - Tell me more about the Eb double sided clarinet.. I wanna try it !
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Author: Sally Gardens
Date: 2002-02-20 10:02
Many, many years ago I saw Douglas Ewart in Chicago. It was a great deal of fun watching him do all sorts of things with bass clarinet (among other instruments) that I'd never been taught in high school. ;-)
He has a home page, FYI.
http://indra.com/~jbarnett/ewart/index.html
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Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2002-02-21 11:06
How about some of you poms come to Australia so you can find out what a sense of humour really is!!!!! There is no way a clarinet of any size can sound like a didgeridoo which is played by an expert.
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Author: jez
Date: 2002-02-21 15:44
Mark P.
Thanks for the invitation. It's so hard to find the time, these days, to get to visit the colonies, so perhaps you could post some examples of Aussie humour for us all to appreciate.
In defense of the clarinet;- there is no way a didgeridoo, even played by an expert, can sound like anything else.
Would clarinets benefit from being bored out by hungry termites?
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2002-02-21 20:22
jez enquires:
>Would clarinets benefit from being bored out by hungry termites?
I dunno. Perhaps if all the soft stuff got devoured it would reduce cracking problems.
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