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Author: bob gardner
Date: 2000-11-25 03:55
I have been playing my bass all day and just went back to my Bb. It is really funny. I feel like i"m playing a recorder--it is so small.
have fun
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Author: Nate Zeien
Date: 2000-11-25 04:29
Don't worry, it does feel funny switching from instrument to instrument at first. You will eventually get used to it, and it won't feel funny at all anymore. -- Nate Zeien
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Author: Willie
Date: 2000-11-25 22:27
I know the feeling, Bob. I went over six months of playing only on my contra alto and when I went back to my soprano in another band, it felt so tiny. I had to get used to more and qicker notes too as on my contra, I just mostly oom-pah along.
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Author: Melanie
Date: 2000-11-26 05:14
I just finished playing in the pit orchestra for Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music" on the Reed 3 book that requires bass and soprano. Never in my life did I think it would wear out my embouchure the way it did! Of course, I don't regret it at all, but it made my teacher remind me that my major was in soprano clarinet, not musical pit orchestra.
I absolutely love the entire clarinet family, but yes, the Bb soprano feels so little compared to bass. It even feels smaller after playing A.
Melanie
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Author: Allen Cole
Date: 2000-11-26 09:18
I had this problem in college. I played E-flat clarinet in the wind ensemble, bass clarinet in the orchestra and bari sax in the stage band. When I played my B-flat, my fingers felt like they were going into the holes of a bowling ball. My mouth didn't have a clue, and is still struggling.
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Author: Kontragirl
Date: 2000-11-29 00:07
Did you have that feeling that you were going to break the poor thing? I get that feeling a lot.
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Author: Robert Gifford
Date: 2001-01-21 19:16
I play Contra during most of high school (and made all-state my senior year in Texas), but in college I found that there just isnt a demand, so I play Bb Soprano.... Yea I feel the difference, of course I play faster and more notes (actually no if your comparing it to the tryout music for reigon/area/state band... I played that really fast and there was lots of notes)....
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