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Author: Tim P
Date: 2008-01-04 13:05
here is a links to an article about a clarinetist attempts to comminicate with whale using a clarinet. He seemely had success.
there are some streaming sound link with the article and another link to utube for a video
then there is a short video on Utube that show him in action.
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/499
have fun.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2008-01-04 13:38
Interesting, Tim, will look it up, if only to find what "gear" they sing in. There is/was? a VG group called "Nuclear Whales" in the San Jose region of CA, have a pic of them, with a BIG bass sax. My grandson took lessons with a skilled women cl/sax player before university and acting took his attentions. Perhaps we can find their publicity pic? GBK, help ? Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2008-01-04 13:51
No need, Glenn, I just Googled Nuclear Whales, and found the sea-side pic of their Sax Orch, Gosh that bass sax is BIGGG. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Ryan K
Date: 2008-01-04 14:10
That's actually a contrabass saxophone. Keyed In EEb, one octave below the baritone.
I'm a bit of a saxoholic on the sides. :-)
Ryan Karr
Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA
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Author: Cass Tech
Date: 2008-01-04 14:20
Why don't we plan a clarinet seance, thereby communicating across the great divide with Tony Stadler, Dick Muhlfeld and Aage Oxenvad? Maybe they could give us some tips on interpreting the repertoire?
Cass Tech (aka leatherlip)
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2008-01-04 16:31
I frequently communicate with my cats using the clarinet. I start playing, and they respond by leaving the room.
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Author: Cass Tech
Date: 2008-01-04 17:23
Just wondering what composers, instruments, ensembles and conductors whales prefer? And whether there are differences of opinion between the Blues, Killers and Sperms? I would guess that the Blues favor George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra playing Rossini Overtures, the Killers go for Ann Sophie Van Otter singing Ravel's Scheherazade with Boulez and the Cleveland Orchestra and the Sperms favor Jesse Norman and James Levine in the Berlin Philharmonic's rendition of Mahler's Das Lied Von Der Erde (but I might be wrong). Incidentally, I have it on good authority that the overwhelming majority of whales prefer the sound of Legere Quebec over Van Doren; however an equal number favor Van Doren leather ligatures as compared to optimum. They all think Herman Melville's characterization of the great white whale in Moby Dick unfairly prejudical to the whale race.
Cass Tech (aka leatherlip)
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Author: Cass Tech
Date: 2008-01-04 17:48
One more thing. Whales have a peculiar expression when they approve of a clarinetist's playing. They say: "He/she really wails!"
Cass Tech (aka leatherlip)
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2008-01-05 12:11
David Spiegelthal wrote,
>>I frequently communicate with my cats using the clarinet. I start playing, and they respond by leaving the room.>>
I'm making my stupid pet human type this. Lelia thinks she fell asleep at the computer while I control her misshapen, inefficiently oversized primate brain. Cats of David Speigelthal, I feel your pain! I've been trying for years to get hold of one of her evil screech-sticks or at least its mousepiece and roll it down the stairs and chew it and scratch it and kill it, but she foils me, thwarts me, prevents me, sssssssssssssss, all in the name of this obscene noise she considers musical! Felines of the world, if we muster our telepathic resources, we can defeat these seducers of our pet humans, who do have their uses, after all, especially as convenient cat-warmers in bed at night when it's freezing cold. But we're putting up with much too much from them in the way of hideous banshee noises....
Sssssssssst!
Shadow Cat
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Author: chipper
Date: 2008-01-07 19:33
My neighborhood is strangely devoid of cats since I started playing. Whales too, for that matter. And just yesterday I was playing my version of "They can't take that away from me" and a possee of neighbors came and took my it away from me. Guess it's a good time to upgrademy horn. I start lessons tonight after a six month hiatus. I'm psyched to get off this silly plateau and advance.
C
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