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Author: Celeborn
Date: 2007-06-25 03:42
For those of you with a philosophical bent--
What is the soul of a clarinetist?
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Author: clarinets1
Date: 2007-06-25 15:05
The soul of a clarinetist must continually be sought after and reworked. We always seem to strive for that perfect soul. I thought i had found it once, but i broke it against my music stand...
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Author: SavvyClarinet
Date: 2007-06-25 15:08
Filled with a desire to be the best and critique anyone who so much as looks at a clarinet the wrong way.
Patient. Clarinetists are tolerant of squeaks, beginners, and tuning issues. We've all been there.
Argumentative. One must be prepared to discuss the superiority of Buffet v Leblanc, Vandoren v Rico, and Chadash v Moenig. There will never be a general consensus.
Creative. Everyone can't play Mozart's K. 622 the way they hear it in recordings. You have to be willing to take a chance with your own ideas.
Determined. You're not the worst, and you're not the best. Keep practicing until you're happy with where you are.
Versatile. Classical, jazz, klezmer - sticking to one genre is boring.
And lastly, confident. We've all heard it before, but if you mess up, people should hear your mistake and wonder if it was really wrong because you looked so sure of yourself. Afterwards, you can go backstage and regret it for the rest of your life.
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2007-06-25 15:58
Clarinetists have no souls. We sell them to the devil early on for the promise of one good reed. (I'm still waiting for mine! Or, maybe, I've already had it. What a depressing thought.)
Clarinetists also don't eat sole. It's two expensive. Generally, if they have fish at all, it is carp, often caught in a local pond after dark when the police aren't around.
But clarinetists often have holes in their soles because they can only afford new shoes about once every 15 years.
Best regards,
jnk
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Author: SirAdamWilliams
Date: 2007-06-26 20:30
Absent.
Well, at least in anyone that had to sell there's to get noticed in the music business...
;)
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Author: GBK
Date: 2007-06-26 21:26
The soul of a clarinetist?
Still doggedly clinging to the belief that the clarinet is relevant in today's electronic/pop/rock/funk world.
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Author: LonDear
Date: 2007-06-27 02:31
You might be surprised at how active of a playing schedule you can keep if your soul can enjoy the playing of Santana (and Stevie Ray and many more) and can play an A clarinet through guitar effects. You just have to tolerate people coming up to you and telling you how great that "little black saxophone" is. Or at the very worst, "those sound Amazing! - what are they? (A/Bb/C/Eb set)" People that hear a clarinet playing pop/rock/blues sounding like a guitar then tend to be VERY receptive to hearing a traditional jazz, smooth jazz, klezmer, swing or gospel number mixed in with the typical pop stuff. Anyway, diversity of styles is good for my soul. And I don't feel that I've sold my soul, since I'm having fun. It just gets a little too loud compared to classical music, but classical never paid the bills for me. I still play classical on an amatuer level just to relax (soothe the soul rather than excite it).
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