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Author: kanako
Date: 2001-11-13 07:48
Hello!
I love clarinet as well as you.
Today,I went to the KAPL LEISTER's concert .
Very very very......nice!!
I became to love clarinet more and more.
I want to talk about clarinet with people in the world.
I can speak English a little.
I am a high school student in Japan.
Please anyone send a mail to me.(^_^)/
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2001-11-13 14:41
Hi Kanako - These people on this Bulletin Board are very friendly and helpful and I'm sure you will have a great response to your greeting. Your English is quite good and I'm sure will expand rapidly with back and forth "conversations". We scarecely know any words in Japanese, so you are much ahead of us. Your choice of clarinetist and I'm sure his music to is the best. What do you wish to discuss ?? Don
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Author: Peter
Date: 2001-11-13 15:05
Good to hear from you, Kanako. Welcome aboard.
If you want to discuss the clarinet with the people of the world, this is certainly the place to do it, and your English sounds pretty good to me.
Just think, on the Sneezy Bulletin Board you'll be able to discuss the clarinet and practice you English at the same time!! Two for the price of one.
As Don Berger said, what would you like to discuss this time around?
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Author: Richard Fong
Date: 2001-11-13 15:37
Nice to meet you here, Kanako, I am form Hong Kong.
How is KAPL LEISTER's concert? Do you know where will the next station of his travel?
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Author: ron b
Date: 2001-11-13 21:36
I, too, am happy to meet you, Kanako.
This is a good place to meet and talk about clarinets and sometimes other topics too. You will find a lot of friendly people here.
Your English is very good - you'll have no problem
Would you like to share with us a little about yourself?
For example:
What are you studying now?
Do you play the clarinet now? For how long?
Are you in a band or an orchestra?
- ron b -
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Author: Bob Arney
Date: 2001-11-14 00:22
Kanako, welcome to the "family." Just remember, like brothers and sisters sometime we argue with each other, but we make up and all is well in the end. Me? I'm 76 and still learning.
Bob A
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Author: Kirk
Date: 2001-11-14 01:54
Hi Kanako,
Welcome to our happy global family. I live in New York city. Your english is just fine. Always a pleasure to meet a fellow clarinetist that also shares our love of music.
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Author: willie
Date: 2001-11-14 04:26
Hello to you from Texas Kanako! your English is just fine and you will meet many good people here on this site with an abundance of knowledge and experience.
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Author: kanako
Date: 2001-11-14 09:31
Thank you for your many massage!!
I am very glad (^.^)/
I will ask here about clarinet and learn to English little by little.
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Author: kanako
Date: 2001-11-15 15:44
Thank you,ron-b (*-^)
Though too late, introduce myself.
I have played the trumpet for three years in elementary school,and played
the bass clarinet for two years in high school,and now I play the B clarinet .
To tell the truth,I want to play the bass clarinet,and enter the music college .
But, in Japan, there is no teacher and no class for bass clarinet.
Don't you think it is very strange??
So I have begun to practice nomal clarinet since May.
Now that I love both B clarinet and bass clarinet.
I want to enter the music college by clarinet.
I respect to Guns Jean who solo bass clarinetist,do you know?
I hope that being made bass clarinet cource in Japan.
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Author: kanako
Date: 2001-11-15 15:44
Thank you,ron-b (*-^)
Though too late, introduce myself.
I have played the trumpet for three years in elementary school,and played
the bass clarinet for two years in high school,and now I play the B clarinet .
To tell the truth,I want to play the bass clarinet,and enter the music college .
But, in Japan, there is no teacher and no class for bass clarinet.
Don't you think it is very strange??
So I have begun to practice nomal clarinet since May.
Now that I love both B clarinet and bass clarinet.
I want to enter the music college by clarinet.
I respect to Guns Jean who solo bass clarinetist,do you know?
I hope that being made bass clarinet cource in Japan someday.
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Author: ron b
Date: 2001-11-15 22:46
Likewise, Kanako
Thank you, too, for sharing with us about yourself. It is interesting that you play many different instruments. Do you continue to play trumpet? Many people who write to Sneezy's bulletin board also play brass instruments. Many people who visit here also love bass clarinet. I find it interesting that you have chosen instruments which are all pitched in B (Bb). I'm sure you'll find many friends here who share your interests.
Possibly the clarinet teachers you know feel that if you learn fingerings for one clarinet the other clarinets are the same fingerings and you do not need to know more. I do not think it strange that there are no bass clarinet teachers where you live because in North America bass clarinets are often considered secondary instruments. So, bass clarinet players are often 'self taught'. I don't know whether a person could enter a music college in the U.S. with bass clarinet as their main instrument. Others will answer that better than I.
It is nice corresponding with you, Kanako, and I wish you all the best in your musical persuits. Which music college do you wish to enter? I'm sure many Sneezy visitors would like to know about music schools in Japan. What are the requirements for entry into a Japanese music college?
- ron b -
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Author: ron b
Date: 2001-11-15 22:55
Oops - I apologize, I forgot to answer this part of your post -- no, I don't know Guns Jean. Can you tell me a little more. Solo bass clarinetist - where?
- ron b -
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Author: Kirk
Date: 2001-11-15 23:51
Kanako,
Anything we can do to help, just ask :-}
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Author: kanako
Date: 2001-11-16 09:53
Born in 1951 in Antwerp,Belgium.
Studied clarinet at the Royal Flemish Conservatory under Professor Walter Boeykens,,,,,,
At present he forms part of the Gemini Ensemble (bass clarinet and marimba)
and the Torio Classicum(basset horn trio).
Jan Guns has inspired several well known and reputed Belgian and foreign composers,
who wrote a number of works especially for him.Hie performances were reported for radio and television
at various European and North -America broadcasting stations,and also for CDs.
Since 1997 he works activery for the "Bass Clarinet Collection-Jan Guns"
publicationof Metropolis Music Publishers.
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