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Re: playing out

Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2010-07-15 20:16

When my best friend and I were in high school and playing (respectively) the contra-alto and bass clarinets in our concert band, we decided to found a 'school' of playing to counter the then-prevalent "French", "German", and "English" schools of clarinet playing. [Recall this was before everyone switched to Buffet R-13s and sound exactly alike as they do today.] We called our style the "Riverdale (Maryland) School of Low Clarinet Playing".

This is just background to our motto, which (facetious as may have been at the time) I have found to be a useful approach throughout my modest playing career:

"Every note's a solo."

Think of this when you play, and don't be shy!

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