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Author: Lisa L
Date: 2002-01-19 12:24
i'm just curious to know how people started playing the clarinet. now i just play for fun.
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Author: Kirk
Date: 2002-01-19 15:52
Lisa,
I had a lot of interesting responses to this question a while back...do a sneezy search for "why a clarinet ?" or look back in the older messages around August 8-10th.
Happy Clarinetting !
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Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2002-01-19 16:08
It was what my parents could afford. I really loved the French Horn, but there was no way they could buy one. So, back in 1961, they opted for a rent/purchase on a Selmer Bundy wood/resonite combination Bb clarinet. Although Clarinet was my second choice, I later got the opportunity to learn to play a school owned French Horn and went back to the clarinet. I decided I didn't want to "start over" since I was first chair on the clarinet---I would have been a certain last chair on the French Horn.
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Author: John
Date: 2002-01-19 16:32
my sister started the flute in fourth grade and so when i reached fourth grade, i wanted to play the flute too because she was. but then she got kinda angry that i was copying her, so she wanted me to play something else. i reluctantly chose the clarinet and now i am very glad i did. i probably wouldn't have done as well on the flute as i have on the clarinet...plus i just love the sound of the clarinet a lot more now:)
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Author: William
Date: 2002-01-19 16:34
It was the summer of going into fourth grade and my Dad wanted me to play the trumpet. But I chose the clarinet, instead, because it had all of those "interesting looking" keys and that "neat looking black thing" you blow into. Boy, have I found out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good Clarineting!!!!!
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Author: Mindy
Date: 2002-01-19 18:29
I heard a high schooler playing the clarinet for solo and ensemble while my mom played the piano for her and fel in love with the clarinet.
Mindy
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Author: Bob Arney
Date: 2002-01-19 18:45
Second son gets "second best." Brother got the Bassoon. Not enough money for an oboe. Glad now.
Bob A
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Author: Casey Porter
Date: 2002-01-19 19:31
i started playing clarinet cause i thought the reeds were perdy...also i love to spend money
-Kc
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Author: Lisa L
Date: 2002-01-19 19:35
i chose it just because i think a lot of other kids in band at the time doing it. and i think it is a neat-looking black thing anyway... :o) and i liked the sound of it more so than the other woodwinds.
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Author: Bb
Date: 2002-01-19 22:13
I played the sax in my advanced band and the clarinet in the begginers band. Later I started to play both in advanced. But I liked to bring the clarinet more, not because I liked the clarinet, because I liked a girl ( Hey, I was in 7th grade!!![I'm in 8th now]). But I stoped liking her, but not the clarinet!!!!!
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Author: ron b
Date: 2002-01-20 02:54
Didn't choose. It was a pre-arranged marriage. But, just think, it's lasted sixty-some years.
Isn't that sumpthin' ???
:])
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Author: William
Date: 2002-01-20 16:23
Married for 64 yrs to a squeeky "thing" that comes totally apart after each and every pleasent or stressful artistic encounter????? HMMMMMMM-- and, my congradulations for "many more." Good Clarineting!!!!!!!!!!
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Author: Noah Stern Weber
Date: 2002-01-20 19:48
I went to a concert in 5th grade of the New York String Orchestra (a youth orchestra under the conducting of Jamie Laredo). There was someone playing an Eefer, and he played like you would not believe. I told my parents I wanted to play. I was lucky my uncle used to play, and my very first horn was a Buffet R-13 (not shabby). I have played on the horn ever since, and never missed one of the NYS concerts. Go see them
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2002-01-21 02:19
When I listened to a Grammophone record on which Gervase de Payer played the Mozart concert with Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Karayan.
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-01-21 02:27
Hirosh,
I understand there is a huge clarinet orchestra in Tokyo, can't seem to find out much about them though ... can you help? thanks
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2002-01-21 03:08
Diz, how about this?
http://www.tkwo.jp/indEnl.html
Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra is famous in Japan.
It has huge wind links.
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Author: Leanne
Date: 2002-01-22 03:46
I chose bass clarinet.
But at the young age of 10 (5th grade), it was too big to drag around. I had already been playing for a few months, and since I had proven that I wasn't going to drop out on my parents, they agreed to rent me a regular clarinet.
My best friend was going to play tenor sax, and I thought some how I could be cool if I played bass clarinet. Who knows...In anycase, as much as I love bass now, I was glad to switch for a few years.
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-01-22 03:59
Hey leanne ... you know, my clarinet sort of chose me. I was poor, and in high school, and had to buy a decent clarinet (on the advice of my teacher), so my "rich" older brother said: hey kid, here's a cheque (check) go for it ... so I went into town and bought a pro Selmer (hey I wasn't paying). I had this horn for about 15 years and loved it more than I can tell you, god Selmer make nice clarinets. Anyway - I got my "baby" home and discovered two things (important turning point in my life) that it wasn't a B flat clarinet and that the reason I knew that was that I discovered at the same time I had perfect pitch (or perfect bitch, as I sometimes refer to it as). Sorry - my stories are rarely short.
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-01-22 04:00
Sorry - I'm a goof - please read "leanne" as Lisa - humble apologise!
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Author: Chris Hill
Date: 2002-01-22 04:34
I wanted to play the violin, but the neighbors were selling a clarinet for $25, so that's what my parents bought me. (They didn't want to waste a lot of money on an instrument that they assumed I would quit playing in three months. It's been 32 years, so far.)
Chris
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Author: mare
Date: 2002-01-22 12:34
The clarinet never appealed to me as a child. As soon as I could talk (probably)ie before age 4, I insisted on learning the harp ,-and strangely, there was never a doubt in my mind that I would, and at age 7, my family returned from Australia with a small wadge of cash, and my parents began to rent a small harp which they finally bought and which I continued to study until university. At school meanwhile, they gave away free instrumental lessons on more normal instruments, and having a yearning for the flute, I began that. At 11, I spent all my savings on a second-hand flute as my parents had nothing spare (I have other siblings..) but I never envied my friends who played clarinet or had any feeling for it, (nothing good anyway).
While I was at university my parents returned from a trip to New Orleans with a tape of a band called 'Sweet Emma' on which was a piece called 'Clarinet Marmalade'. If you haven't heard this kind of music before, I suggest you try some. My dad was keen on jazz, but mainly I'd only previously heard trumpet stuff, like late Louis Armstrong (now I like earlier stuff more), or Big band like Glenn Miller and a bit of Benny Goodman, which actually was OK but not very special to me. Now I think I know what I like. Anyway, I then saw a clarinet in a second-hand shop and suddenly I had to get it; I was with my dad and we paid half each, completely ignorant of its quality, but we had 24hrs to take it back in, so went to the mucic shop up the road (Johnny Roadhouse in Manchester,UK) where Johnny R OK-ed it. That's it. More normal than a flute, much more natural position to hold it. Scales are much easier too (don't know why, fingering is different) Still love my harp though. Mare.
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Author: mare
Date: 2002-01-22 12:35
The clarinet never appealed to me as a child. As soon as I could talk (probably)ie before age 4, I insisted on learning the harp ,-and strangely, there was never a doubt in my mind that I would, and at age 7, my family returned from Australia with a small wadge of cash, and my parents began to rent a small harp which they finally bought and which I continued to study until university. At school meanwhile, they gave away free instrumental lessons on more normal instruments, and having a yearning for the flute, I began that. At 11, I spent all my savings on a second-hand flute as my parents had nothing spare (I have other siblings..) but I never envied my friends who played clarinet or had any feeling for it, (nothing good anyway).
While I was at university my parents returned from a trip to New Orleans with a tape of a band called 'Sweet Emma' on which was a piece called 'Clarinet Marmalade'. If you haven't heard this kind of music before, I suggest you try some. My dad was keen on jazz, but mainly I'd only previously heard trumpet stuff, like late Louis Armstrong (now I like earlier stuff more), or Big band like Glenn Miller and a bit of Benny Goodman, which actually was OK but not very special to me. Now I think I know what I like. Anyway, I then saw a clarinet in a second-hand shop and suddenly I had to get it; I was with my dad and we paid half each, completely ignorant of its quality, but we had 24hrs to take it back in, so went to the mucic shop up the road (Johnny Roadhouse in Manchester,UK) where Johnny R OK-ed it. That's it. More normal than a flute, much more natural position to hold it. Scales are much easier too (don't know why, fingering is different) Still love my harp though. Mare.
(sorry, may have sent this twice? keyboard keeps going Chinese on me)
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