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Author: Beejay
Date: 2000-06-05 22:26
Here's a hypothetical question. You have a beautiful B flat clarinet. You love Mozart, but sometimes you let rip with some mainstream jazz.
So one day, let's imagine, you pick up your stick of cork grease and out pops a genie, who says you can choose one other instrument and don't count the cost. So what's it going to be? An A clarinet? A basset horn? A tenor sax?
What would your response be?
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Author: bill
Date: 2000-06-05 22:57
Well, I don't think this type of situation would ever come up, and if it did I'd be surprised. Well, I'd go for the sax or whatever had more cash value. Then if that is not the instrument I would want to keep, I would sell it overpriced and buy whichever I wanted and keep the cash on the side. Maybe I'd buy a trumpet... or maybe a bari sax...
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Author: TwrlGrl
Date: 2000-06-05 23:06
Hmmm. Let me think. A genie pops out of my box of cork grease (That's hilarious! I would start to think I'm going crazy if that happenned.) and asks me if what other instrument I want. Well, I think it would have to be a new alto clarinet because right now I use the school's old one and it plays, but it's not up to par in condition, or maybe a contra clarinet ( I want to try one out next summer(this summer I'm learning alto saxophone)) or maybe a french horn (I've tried one and it was odd at first, but I liked it).
It's hard to pick just one. I like to try out new instruments.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Clarinetist,
TwrlGrl
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Author: Kontragirl
Date: 2000-06-05 23:35
Beejay wrote:
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Here's a hypothetical question. You have a beautiful B flat clarinet. You love Mozart, but sometimes you let rip with some mainstream jazz.
So one day, let's imagine, you pick up your stick of cork grease and out pops a genie, who says you can choose one other instrument and don't count the cost. So what's it going to be? An A clarinet? A basset horn? A tenor sax?
What would your response be?
My immediate responce would be "Why are you in my cork grease?" After that was all cleared up I would ask for a contrabass clarinet or a bari sax.
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Author: Ginny
Date: 2000-06-05 23:48
Well first, I always request three more wishes with the first wish. And I remember that in all those genie stories, you have to be careful what you wish for, they turn out so badly. I like the strad idea... but I think I will ask for the future midi-sythn. replacement. Perhaps from 500 years in the future. Then I can reverse engineer the whole thing and with the fortune I amass I can buy the universe and give away all the instruments I don't want!
I love the question.
I'd really rather get the genie to give me some more talent and cleverness.
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Author: Beejay
Date: 2000-06-05 23:56
Thanks for all your replies. I should come clean on this one. I've just done a job for which I can if I wish be paid with an instrument. Such an opportunity will never again present itself, so I wanted to find out what others might do under the same circumstances. I wonder how much use I would get out of an A clarinet as a strictly amateur, part-time musician. I love the sound of the basset horn, and would really like to play the Mozart Divertimenti, but that means finding two other basset horn players. Difficult. Then again, I might get a whole bunch of fun from a tenor sax. Is it hard to change from clarinet to sax? I'd go along with Mark's idea, but the job wasn't that big.
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Author: Amber
Date: 2000-06-05 23:58
Now thats my kind of genie!!!!!!!!!
Well, since it wouldn't be my money I was risking, I would go for something new...I think a tenor sax would be cool, it's the best sounding sax of the bunch, and it would be fun to act like a know-it-all-constantly hacking-jazz-playing-ego maniac...but then this is me we are talking about...
I would probably sumbit to a wave of practicalism, and ask for an oboe...I am learning it, but don't own one, plus I hear colleges constantly need oboe players and will give out good scholarships to get one.
Then I would give the genie some cookies...hey, it must be no fun to give all these cool things to other people without a thank you or a thing for himself!!
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Author: Laurie
Date: 2000-06-06 00:51
Hmm.. I think I would go with Ginny's idea of .. instilling some more talent in me..
If not .. i would want to get an older Selmer alto .. or mabye an Eb Soprano Clarinet .. or an Bass Flute... or an oboe.. mabye..
Talent would be nice though.. Mabye some patience with myself .. hehe..
Best of luck deciding Beejay !
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Author: Meri
Date: 2000-06-06 01:43
My choice--an good A Clarinet. I just cannot play transcriptions or transpositions of music written for A Clarinet on the Bb instrument, and there's a lot of pieces written for the A clarinet that I love. I don't play sax, (although I tried to--altos are heavy for me)A nice grand piano would be my second choice, and then a good Eb clarinet.
But yes, maybe we should first ask the genie for more wishes. How about perfect reeds that always play well,never chirp last a long time, never need adjusting, and are perfectly balanced. (but then, Legere has *the* perfect reed, so perhaps a lifetime supply of those.) Then the perfect triple case to store the three instruments.
Meri
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Author: Pam
Date: 2000-06-06 02:27
I can only pick one???!!! Maybe a sax, or a flute, or a double-reed. I'm even intrigued by the idea of bassoon. Man. Too hard a choice.
Maybe if I could just start with the tone on the clarinet that I hear coming from my private teacher's horn. Now that's my wish. ;-)
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Author: Kontragirl
Date: 2000-06-06 02:53
Sax is not hard to pick up at all. I started learning on the 3rd, and here I am, four days later, and the cat isn't meowing and rolling on the ground in pain anymore . Actually, I'm pretty good, once you get the fingerings down, you're pretty much in the clear. I would go for the sax, it sounds like you would appreiate it the most in the long one, but I can't tell you what to chose. You are so lucky.
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Author: Mrdi
Date: 2000-06-06 03:08
Think I'd go for that cute red head, looks like a fine instrument to me and the tone WOW! Couldn't find one of those mail-order.
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Author: Willie
Date: 2000-06-06 04:44
I'm more getting into the heavy metal. I want a EEb LeBlanc contra paper clip that blows easy and capable off competing with those noisy dang trumpets.
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Author: Dave Lee Ennis
Date: 2000-06-06 11:43
Kontragirl wrote:
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My immediate responce would be "Why are you in my cork grease?" After that was all cleared up I would ask for a contrabass clarinet or a bari sax.
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I thought you already had a contrabass clarinet K.G. Or was that C.G? Anyway I'm a little confused. I'd probably get what was most expensive, and if it was a true Genie, it would be the most beautiful sounding clarinet on earth, whatever it was.
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2000-06-06 15:20
I agree with Mark. A Guarnerius violin and the ability to play it. You have no idea how frustrated I get with an instrument where I can't talk and play at the same time.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Lelia
Date: 2000-06-06 16:11
I wouldn't think small here. I'd ask the genie for a complete tracker organ, closely resembling the Flentrop at Duke University. I'd specify "complete" because a room of adequate size and shape, with appropriate acoustics, is a crucial part of any pipe organ. Wouldn't want to try to stuff contra-bombarde pipes under my 8' living room ceiling....
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Author: Kontragirl
Date: 2000-06-06 17:38
My contralto belongs to the school. To be completely honest, I've never touched a real contrabass clarinet, I would accept a contralto too...
Dave Lee Ennis wrote:
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I thought you already had a contrabass clarinet K.G. Or was that C.G? Anyway I'm a little confused. I'd probably get what was most expensive, and if it was a true Genie, it would be the most beautiful sounding clarinet on earth, whatever it was.
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Author: Jesse
Date: 2000-06-06 21:38
Personally, I would have gone for the oboe. I just love it's beautiful tone and complexity
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2000-06-07 04:59
An orchestra. The preferable level is Fultwengler's Berlin or Minsh's Boston. Not present internationalized ones.
The members do everything what I direct without grumbling,pay,food,anything.
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2000-06-07 04:59
An orchestra. The preferable level is Fultwengler's Berlin or Minsh's Boston. Not present internationalized ones.
The members do everything what I direct without grumbling,pay,food,anything.
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Author: Beejay
Date: 2000-06-07 08:42
Some wonderful advice here. I'll let you all know when I've made up my mind in a couple of weeks. I wish all dilemmas could be so delightful.
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Author: paul
Date: 2000-06-08 20:30
A Heckl Bassoon. A Rossi clarinet. A Steinway piano. A Bughatti sports car (world's most expensive production car at $500,000 each). A Gulfstream private jet with crew to take me anywhere in the world.
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Author: Eoin
Date: 2000-06-12 10:22
Even an all powerful genie couldn't come with an orchestra that doesn't grumble. It is a contradiction in terms, like a square circle.
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