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Author: SGTClarinet_7
Date: 2004-08-08 17:09
As I have only been on the site for a few months, I find myself always wondering who y'all are. I know some are professionals, and some are high school students etc. As for me, My name is Matthew Gravely. I hail from Albany, Ga. I have been playing for 18 years, and have been in the military playing for 12. I never had the chance for lessons growing up, as no one taught down there in Agony, oops I mean Albany, Ga. I plan to play up until I get buried. So there you go. That's me. I'd like to know about everyone else. Who you are, how long you've played, etc. Thanks!
Matthew
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Author: contragirl
Date: 2004-08-08 17:28
Welcome! I am music performance major (clarinet and bass cl) at the University of Maryland... and hoping that this year, I will graduate. I've been playing for 12 years.
I really haven't had much experience with private lessons, except for this thing that my country offered. There was this cheapo summer music lesson program where you could get lessons with some random person for pretty cheap... I don't believe I learned anything.
Anyway, by my junior year in HS, I started getting lessons with the Principal clarinetist for the US Navy band that lived in my city, Michael McDonald. When I went away to college, I had to leave him. :( Then got lessons from Ed Walters, who I still study with.
Thas me! Who else is up?
Contragirl
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2004-08-08 18:52
GBK - Didn't we have a thread of this sort about 1-2 months ago? I cant recall the name, can you find it for SGTC, please? Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Carol Dutcher
Date: 2004-08-08 18:53
I live in California. Age is just a number and mine is unlisted. I play jazz and dixieland clarinet and played in a polka band for a few years. I also plan to play until I'm kickin up daisies.
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Author: Avie
Date: 2004-08-08 19:11
I remember the post Don but I also cannot remember the key words. Maybe GBK or Mark can help find it.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2004-08-08 19:19
Me too, Carol, hopefully a much-Sooner daisy-kicker [in OKlahoma!] than you. I began learning clarinet/sax at age 10 in 1929 and have played ever since. Gosh, how tempus fugits ! Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: ron b
Date: 2004-08-08 21:49
Hi, Matthew -
I live in Sacramento, CA. Another returner after a couple of decade time-out. Enjoy your posts.
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Carol - Greetings from Sacto! 
From where do you hail?
(A long story, but I haven't been to an annual (Sacramento) Jazz Jubilee in lots and lots of years. Have you?)
- r![[cool]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/cool.gif) n b -
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Author: hrvanbeek
Date: 2004-08-08 21:50
Hi Matthew! I'm from Sarona, WI (where?.....exactly...no one knows). Been playing clarinet for about 25 years now, in military bands for 10+. Have a BM from UW-Superior (on the 'lake'). Plan on playing until my eyes give out on me.
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Author: kdennyclarinet
Date: 2004-08-08 22:59
Hi!
I got a late start with band at the end of 10th grade, but went on to get my undergrad in mus ed at the University of Tulsa and my masters in performance at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Even though I started out on bass clarinet, the Bb clarinet is now my primary instrument and I've been playing for 10 years. I also compose clarinet duets, trios, and quartets (one of which was premiered at the OU Clarinet Symposium this summer--yipee!). Currently, I'm teaching middle school band in Arkansas and am looking forward to DMA auditions in the near future! Visit "my world" at our band page: www.almaband.org. My full bio is also there if you must read more.
K. Denny
BME, MM, DMA
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Author: psychotic lil clarinet girl (don't as
Date: 2004-08-08 23:06
I'm very young in the clarinet community... haha... I've only been playing for a year... I'm proud of it too!!!.. anyways, I'm a sophmore in high school, and have been trying to catch up to the rest of the crowd... They've all been playing for 3-4+ years... I think our first chair has been playing for around 8-9 years... As I travel my journey to first chair I'll probably be askin lots of questions... As if I'll ever make it there, but hopefully one day I will... Anyways, I'm gonna look at those links, because I'm interested to see what these ppl do too... It might give me an idea of what to do when I'm older... who knows... Oh yeah, and forgive me if I ask too many questions, but I'm just a beginner... So, I'll have a lot of them... thanks...
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2004-08-09 07:34
Hi, I'm from Israel. Been playing since I was 7 (started on Eb clarinet) and now I'm in university in what they call the Jazz department, Playing clarinet and mostly bass clarinet.
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Author: Avie
Date: 2004-08-09 14:30
Hi! Welcome to the BB. I am a semi retired designer living in Ct. I played the clarinet until I was 14 and now I have time to play again. I bought a second hand Bb R13 two years ago and dug into my many books, the internet, and this BB which I have learned much from. I consider playing a instrument an enjoyable pastime and hobby. So far I havent had any complaints from my neighbors. They are probably praying that I will eventually get better :-) Have fun. ATV
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Author: Clarinetist
Date: 2004-08-09 15:10
Hi Matthew! I´m from Finland. I´m starting my second year in high school and I´ve been playing clarinet for about 6 years. I´m planning to continue my music studies in college. I hope I´d be good enough when the time comes. See ya´ around!
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Author: William
Date: 2004-08-09 15:44
Hello SGT. "One more time", I am: a retired middle school band director (34 yrs and enjoyed every minute of it) now playing clarinets, saxs and flute in a variety of local wind ensembles, jazz bands and orchestras; clarinet teachers were Benny Ehr, William Dominec, Harry Peters, Glenn Bowen and Russell Dagon; current professional gigs are 2nd clarinet with the Beloit/Janesville Orchestra and "first call" bass clarinet sub for the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra; playing Buffet and LeBlanc clarinets, Selmer saxs and a King b-foot flute; have a closet full of accessories my wife keeps threatening to put out in the Wed morning trash and am a frequent poster on this BB who should write less and practice more.
Glad to meet you Matt.
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Author: claclaws
Date: 2004-08-10 11:10
Hi!
I'm a freelance Korean-English conference interpreter & translator. This is my ninth year in the field.
Curiously, when I practice the clarinet a lot, go here and there to perform or to play it with groups of friends, the next time I'm involved in any translation assignment, I find myself more effective and eager to work.
Lucy Lee Jang
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Author: Pappy
Date: 2004-08-10 12:26
Haven't posted on one of these threads yet so....
I've been playing for about 37 years. Was a B.M.E. major at Indiana University in the 70's and among those I was privileged to study with was Bernard Portnoy. Before that I took lessons from one of my personal heroes and mentors....a man named Carl Bartlett in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was my father's teacher in the 40's and 50's and my teacher in the 60's and 70's. He died in the early 80's. His friends called him "Pappy"...thus my user name. For reasons that are too mundane go get into, I've been working in I.T. for 25 years and have only played as an amateur/freelancer with occasional private students. Have lived a number of places but am now back in Indianapolis ("back home again........").
Play a Buffett R13 Bb, Selmer A, Kaspar Ann Arbor and Portnoy mouthpieces and whatever reeds are not arguing with me on any given day (V12s, blue box, Zonda's, Mitchell Luries....).
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Author: williamainsworth
Date: 2004-08-10 15:38
Hello to everyone;
I am an English native, now proudly a Canadian since 1960. I took up clarinet on and off about ten years ago when I was about sixty - two and largely taught myself, thank to Rubank. I am not musically talented but have the advantage of not getting bored with scales and arpeggios. My main ambition is to be a competant third clarinet player for concert band, I like the tone at that level and have no intention of "moving up" because I think it's an important spot in a band. I am currently playing with a band here in Ontario in which we usually have only two clarinets, so I occasionally feel overexposed and am inclined to get a little embarrassed [although our conductor and the bandsmen are kind]. I love this website. As long as I think I am improving I'll continue to play with a concert band. I am also struggling with vintage alto saxaphone.
And I'd like to express a word of appreciation to those accomplished clarinetists who help out on this website with their great advice, I doubt if the site would be such a great success without them.
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Author: Brenda
Date: 2004-08-10 16:56
I'm in Ontario too, although originally from the States. I started playing in my early teens but was self-taught, started band in Grade 11, reached the 1st clar. section early in Grade 12. After playing briefly with a community orchestra there was an extended break due to family and work. Nine years ago I started to take lessons when the kids were starting in their school's band.
At the moment I'm still taking lessons but am teaching privately now and love that end of the musical spectrum. A few of us adult semi-professionals and amateurs formed a clarinet choir four years ago. We have our first CD now and we perform wherever we can. Two pieces that we've performed were composed for us by another BB member.
Knowledge of children, music theory, performance, and assisting the band instructor by conducting clarinet sectionals for six years have allowed me to fill in an empty spot in the orchestra as volunteer Education co-ordinator. It doesn't interfere too much with my day job, although we'll see if I can get it to interfere quite a bit more. My non-musician husband puts up with all this because I go back to my other responsibilities in a better frame of mind, just as "claclaws" described above.
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2004-08-10 17:41
College student in southern California, double-majoring in computer science and music composition, in my sixth year of seven. Been playing clarinet for 8 years, played flute for 7 before that. Have been playing "good" clarinet with lessons for the past 3 years or so. Am a grand-student of jez, and shared a concert with CJB last year. Through another teacher, I'm supposedly a great-great....-grand-student of Heifetz.
I'm currently writing a piece for clarinet choir, which I hope to finish in a month or so and have performed late in the fall.
Had my first paying gig in June, in a quintet, playing as entrance music before the Long Beach Symphony.
Playing an R13 Bb, Richard Hawkins MP, Morrie Backun barrel/bell. Will be buying an A shortly, after selling a kidney on the black market :P
Will play anything Malcolm Arnold, but I'm currently working on John Adams' Gnarly Buttons.
(edit: typo)
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: Tom J.
Date: 2004-08-10 22:51
Hi Matt,
I live in Los Angeles and do Systems Engineering and Applications Development for an aerospace company. I've been playing clarinet since the 50s, or thereabouts.
Grew up in New Orleans listening to great Jazz players and began studying with Ron DeKant in the orchestra there. I wanted to be an actor but after winning a contest to perform with the N.O. Symphony I was hooked on clarinet. The oboist in the orchestra, John Mack recommended me to his friend in Cleveland, Bob Marcellus, with whom I studied for 4 years. I played in the Akron Symphony for a while. One summer I toured with the American Wind Symphony and the next year I went to Tanglewood. I was blown away by the fine players I met everywhere, that's when I knew that mere talent was not enough.
Went into the Army Band in the 60's and Indiana U. in the 70's to study with Portnoy. Worked as an announcer at the school's radio station and taught undergrad students. Became interested in Musicology under the tutelage of Dr. Hans Tischler, but Computer Science became another of my passions, and later my profession.
Presently I perform with several local orchestras and ensembles, including a Middle Eastern group that just recorded a CD and video. I've given premieres of three works written for me by local composers and I'm currently working on an original work for clarinet and strings and a transcription of Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto.
When I was at Tanglewood Gino Cioffi gave me some advice I still try to adhere to (although this post is not a good example). He said :
"Talk-a da less. Play-a da bess"
Tom J.
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Author: Francois Kloc
Date: 2004-08-11 19:46
Hello Sgt,
My name is Francois Kloc and I am the Manager of Woodwinds North America for the Music Group ( Buffet Crampon,Schreiber,Keilwerth,Besson,Paesold,Hofner) I live in Santa clarita California, I just turned 37, I am married and I have three kids, Felix 7. Lucy 5 and Charlotte 2. I have been making and repairing woodwind instruments since I was 15 years old and I have worked for Mignot, Rigoutat,Loree manufactures and Bertet music in retail. If you ever come in LA please let me know and I will be happy to show you our office and take a look at your clarinets.
Musically Yours,
Francois Kloc
President & CEO
Buffet Crampon USA, Inc.
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Author: Francois Kloc
Date: 2004-08-11 19:47
Hello Sgt,
My name is Francois Kloc and I am the Manager of Woodwinds North America for the Music Group ( Buffet Crampon,Schreiber,Keilwerth,Besson,Paesold,Hofner) I live in Santa clarita California, I just turned 37, I am married and I have three kids, Felix 7. Lucy 5 and Charlotte 2. I have been making and repairing woodwind instruments since I was 15 years old and I have worked for Mignot, Rigoutat,Loree manufactures and Bertet music in retail. If you evere come in LA please let me know and I will be happy to show you our office and take a look at your clarinets.
Musically Yours,
Francois Kloc
President & CEO
Buffet Crampon USA, Inc.
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Author: contragirl
Date: 2004-08-11 21:07
Haha, I think any Buffet player would know Francois. I met him then took his picture at Clarinetfest. :P
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