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Author: MikeyBoy
Date: 2004-09-23 02:27
So today during my free time since half the school was testing, i decided ot pull out the ContrAlto and Alto Clars we have @ school for fun. and i LOVE them. The ContrAlto was surprisignly easy to play and so was the Alto. I remember the band using it to play Rolling Thunder, one of the Bass Clars was given it ot play for that song only. And my school has 2 of each, not THAT is what i call awesome. Ha....well i know this is a kinda eh thread but this was my first experience with those and i wanted to share with everybody.
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Author: Contra
Date: 2004-09-23 02:48
The year I began playing Contra-alto we played Rolling Thunder. I still have the music to it. Rolling Thunder and Molly on the Shore were the songs we played. Every once in a while I replay the. Enough of my nostalgic ramblings about tenth grade, though. That was a whole two years ago.
I wish we had an alto clarinet that I could try. It was surprising enough that we had a contra-alto. A Leblanc 351 nonetheless.
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Author: Iacuras
Date: 2004-09-23 03:02
I love the alto clarinet. I played it for a full year in eighth grade, and was going to play it again in 9th but the schools alto was broken, so i switched back to bass. I have never played the contra-alto, but i can guess what it plays like because of my bass and contra-bass experience. It is at times 10x funner to play the harmonic clarinets, but you still have to keep you soprano's around to do symphony work, and peices that don't have harmonic clarinet parts.
Steve
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