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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2008-02-25 06:00
Hi
If you play two (soprano) clarinet simultanously, how do you hold them? It is different if only using the open G on one of them, or fingering both. With only open G, which is what I need now, I hold the open G clarinet between my legs and hold the other with my hands normally. Maybe there is a better idea? I am a little scared it will slip (hasn't happened yet). For playing both with one hand each, lean the bells on my knees or a chair but we decided not to go with this and only use the open G for this piece. Maybe there is an idea I haven't thought of.
Thanks.
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Author: donald
Date: 2008-02-25 08:58
nope, that's about it....
if you want to use your A clarinet (and play the B flat) the G# key can be wedged open with a match so that it plays G (on the B flat clarinet, if that makes sense)
dn
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2008-02-25 10:09
Thanks, I'll hold it with my legs then. BTW I'm using two Bb clarinets and want the open G anyway, but thanks for the idea (if I ever want/need G#, A or A#).
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2008-02-25 11:03
A neck strap would keep the one you're not playing in position and keep it off the floor if you lose control.
Get some pictures of Roland Kirk, who did this all the time, particularly with saxophones.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2008-02-25 14:26
I believe the US Patent Office, in their Class[ification] 84, Musical Instruments, has a "Duplex [Ibelieve] "subclass for ?mainly? double pipe types of recorders etc. Perhaps that is where we might find a patent I've seen of how to combine a sop cl with a tenor sax. I'll spend a few minutes of research on this intriguing question. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2008-02-25 16:05
This "research" took about an hour, but Eureka [I found it], close, but no cigar !! US 4,341,146 is a "combined" soprano and tenor saxophone, [not a cl, but ? could be?]. Using both Google Patents and USPTO sites, I found more of perhaps lesser interest, 2,232,151 in partic. READ, Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: ghuba
Date: 2008-02-26 00:13
Author: Ken Shaw (---.dyn.optonline.net - ISP in Brooklyn, NY United States)
Date: 2008-02-25 11:03
Get some pictures of Roland Kirk, who did this all the time, particularly with saxophones.
Ken Shaw
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Roland Kirk (or as he was later known as Rahsaan Roland Kirk) would often play a manzello and a stritch (both antique saxophone-like instruments that were pitched in such as way that they complemented a tenor saxophone) simultaneously, sometimes while also playing a tenor sax and even once in a while with a nose flute going at the same time. His classic recording of Sweet Georgia Brown has him simultaneously playing tenor sax and the nose flute. Other times he was playing flute and nose flute simultaneously, or playing a flute and grabbing one of the three saxes hanging off his neck to play a new riff. And Kirk was also one of the earliest jazz masters of circular breathing so he could keep all of these instruments going on solos that seemed to last forever. Unique talent who was great to see live. There are lots of clips of his playing on www.YouTube.com. Kirk had amazing muscular and musical control at all times and in a musical idiom (jazz) that prides itself on individuality, perhaps might be regarded as the most "individual" or "unique" player of all time. Darn good trumpet player also.
George
Post Edited (2008-02-26 01:23)
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2008-02-28 13:44
Thanks, since I just needed the open G I held the clarinet between my legs and luckily there was no accident. If I want/need to play different notes on both I'll probably use neck straps on both.
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