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Re: Alto clarinets and Eb clarinets going extinct?

Author: rsholmes
Date: 2007-04-05 01:07

This thread has surprised me, in a good way... Not quite time for an Alto Clarinet Yahoo Group, I suppose, but not time to bury the instrument either!

I have to confess to not asserting myself for the cause of alto clarinets. I just joined a community band, told the director I had soprano, alto, and bass clarinets and he said bring the soprano, we have a bass clarinet and need more sopranos. He didn't even talk about the alto. Then again my alto is my least satisfactory clarinet in terms of quality and condition, and as much as I love the lower clarinets I kind of feel the need to work on my soprano playing, so I didn't press the issue.

Decidedly a chicken and egg situation; altos getting no respect because they're badly played, badly maintained, and badly written for, because they get no respect. How great it'd be to have a Josef Horák for the alto, performing solo recitals and getting people to take the instrument seriously. Meanwhile, as someone said, at least there's plenty of cheap altos on the market...

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