Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2010-06-25 15:43
On a PBS show featuring the clarinetists from BYU, Jared (clarinet prof) referred to the alto thus:
"...not an instrument of music, but an instrument of torture."
I guess he'd know.
When I was a kid teaching in a music studio, the boss had his own stable of clarinets from bass to sopranino. On Saturday, he'd have 5 of us in for 2-1/2 hours. One would be in his studio getting woodshedded, and the other four would be playing 4tets for mixed clarinets: 2 Bb, alto, bass.
His instruments were fresh Selmers, so they played very well. The Bass and Alto probably had Brillhart 5* mouthpieces, and he kept boxes of reeds available.
FUN, FUN, FUN!
OBTW: Why is the alto referred to as beast/beastie in UK, Canada?
Bob Phillips
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