Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2006-03-06 20:25
I've used horns that emitted a "flutey-like" hiss from the register vents, and in exposed passages (American from Paris, say) it has been audible out to the concertmistress at the edge of the orchestra. Probably, like bassoon key clacking, it's of much more import to us the musicians than it is to the audience.
(I have sat in front of bassoon sections that sounded like a bag of bones while playing The Sorcerer's Apprentice. However, once the contra-bassoon started rattling along, the bassoon noise was the least of our problems.)
In that case, it was a matter of not playing that bass clarinet any longer (which was not a problem as by then I had bought my own Selmer model 33.
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