Author: sprice
Date: 2015-05-18 02:24
After a good year or so of browsing, I finally made an account.
Nonetheless, I'm a freshman in high school, and currently play alto saxophone in band. Next year, a few others and I were planning on switching to soprano clarinet (as my band director complains about there being "too many altos," and some of us [including myself] can double on clarinet). However, when I found out my school has an old alto clarinet collecting dust, I opted in to play it next year. My director doesn't like the idea, and constantly reiterates "All the alto clarinettists are DEAD!" along with other criticisms.
My main argument is that there are no alto clarinettists, and there haven't been for a few decades in the county, hence why I should bring it back to life and make our band unique. Besides, almost all pieces the band plays call for an alto clarinet, and sometimes even solos and parts not doubled, typically found in older pieces. For the newer songs we play, which were made after the general expulsion of alto clarinets from standard concert band repertoire, I could double as a soprano clarinettist or bass clarinettist, as I have an alto/soprano stand and a separate bass stand.
The downsides are that the instrument is in need of new pads and tenon corks (since it was stored and maintained poorly over the years), and... well, my director and half the band hate me for wanting to play such an obscure, obsolete instrument. You'll probably get a better response from them by saying I'll be playing the French violin.
So, to you people here, what would you say on my becoming an alto clarinettist?
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