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Author: BassetHorn
Date: 2005-10-27 21:15
Hello all, time for some fun topic before the weekend. For you clarinet and sax players, what is your favourite clarinet/sax to play for yourself? In other words, when there is no need to perform to outside pressures, what instrument do you mostly reach for for personal enjoyment?
Mine? Tenor sax and bass clarinet.
Willy
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-10-27 21:40
Flute
The best of both worlds; Baroque literature and no reeds ![[wink]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie3.gif) ...GBK
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Author: ron b
Date: 2005-10-27 21:48
I enjoy amusing myself at the piano. No, I don't 'play' the piano, I plink out tunes and then jot 'em down. I then use the piano to also work out some harmonies that I can't quite "hear" on paper. It's fun, to me anyway, to do this when I have some spare moments, hours, whatever. Then I play them on the clarinet to discover whether they're suitable as instrumentals...or not. As you can tell, and as I readily admit, it doesn't take much to amuse me. I find writing music a relaxing pastime and on rare occassions even a worthwhile one.
(paper recyclers just love people like - r![[cool]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/cool.gif) n b -
Post Edited (2005-10-27 21:52)
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Author: Connor
Date: 2005-10-27 21:50
As a clarinetist, i reach for a bari saxophone and play bach cello suites
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Author: Grant
Date: 2005-10-27 21:53
Tin whistle. Irish music. Autoharp any folk music that I can sing. My wife and the cats don't seem to mind and my two year old granddaughter likes to sing along and or dance. Finally clarinet duets with my wife. That is how we got together in the first place.
Peace on Earth and May You always have a reed that PLAYS.
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Author: ClariBone
Date: 2005-10-27 23:16
I love the clarinet, but a close second is the trombone. OOH, no reeds and a perfect glissando as well as a place in the jazz band. Its really cool to play both, I feel like I get the best of both worlds
Clayton
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Author: leonardA
Date: 2005-10-28 01:47
It's funny I love the sax and was originally a sax player, but I mostly play the clarinet because I'm not as good at it and I want to get better. It's much less forgiving than the sax, and I don't know if I'll ever reach the comfort level with it that I have with the sax (alto and tenor), but I keep hoping (and working).
Leonard
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2005-10-28 09:51
I notice that the original question was
what is your favourite clarinet/sax to play for yourself
Like several others, I shall ignore the question. Right now, I'm with ClariBone. Trombone is FUN! Hugely frustrating, but FUN!
We get so much whinging on this board about problems caused by reeds. Believe you me, reeds make it easy. Just see what happens when you take the reed away and it's your lips that do the vibrating.
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If there are so many people on this board unwilling or unable to have a civil and balanced discussion about important issues, then I shan't bother to post here any more.
To the great relief of many of you, no doubt.
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Author: OpusII
Date: 2005-10-28 10:15
I don't play sax...but I'm going to ignore the question to.... I really love to play the eefer, I know that I’m probably mentally ill…..![[hot]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/hot.gif)
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Author: FrankM
Date: 2005-10-28 12:12
I love both clarinet and tenor sax, but for relaxation I often choose the recorder....as GBK said...Baroque music and no reeds ! (or pads...or springs !!)
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2005-10-28 13:09
I go for my fine alto cl, its less "awkward" than my bass, is also easy to blow, and I'd like to develop greater facility on it, approaching my "mediocre" sop cl abbilities. I do much "doodling" in odd keys, play old sax tunes I recall from the "weekend warrior" days, while watching CNN on mute !! Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2005-10-28 19:05
My Radio Shack keyboard which all my piano playing friends have dissed, despite the fact the keys are weighted and touch-sensitive (well, kind of), and there are 76 of them, instead of the usual 61 or fewer.
I play piano keyboard the same way I type on a computer keyboard; i.e., I need to look at the keys.![[grin]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie5.gif) In other words, I don't play piano at all. I'm trying to teach myself to at least recognize the 3 - 2 pattern of black keys so I don't have to continually refer back to the keys on the left side of the board which are labeled with the notes (for one-finger and other automatic chording), and I'm slow with those. But I like to play with the keyboard to explore chord progressions and relationships.
Steve Epstein
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Author: dummer musiker
Date: 2005-10-28 22:15
BASSOON!!!!! :-)
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."
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Author: Aussiegirl
Date: 2005-10-29 04:46
Trumpet...i only fiddle with it, but its awesome and makes a lot of noise :D as an instrument i can actually play, bari sax.
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2005-10-29 05:20
My favorites are clarinet and bass clarinet. If I liked other instruments better I'd play other instruments.
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Author: Gandalfe
Date: 2005-10-29 20:58
Bb Clarinet/soprano sax because I need so much work on these two.
Jim and Suzy
Pacifica Big Band
Seattle, Washington
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