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RE: doubling

Author: Daniel
Date: 1999-08-09 06:06

Many fine doublers make a good living playing all the woodwind instruments. My sax teacher plays clarinets, saxes, oboe and bassoon all at a high level (bassoon and sax at soloist level and clarinet and oboe at performer level, flute at a passable level).
To make it in the world of doubling, usually clarinet and sax will do it, if you usually only play the low reed books. To play the higher books flute (and/or piccolo is neccessary and sometimes oboe. Bassoon isn't neccessary unless you play the 5th reed book often, and in a symphonic show setting... in a normal and/or jazz setting, the basson part can usually be played on bass clarinet.

Hiroshi wrote:
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I recommend Alto Sax.Soprano sax is very difficult to sound in tune. (I play both.Alto better.)
I do not recommend flute although I play it.Although flute's mechanism is nearly a perfection,its tunes are very difficult.It takes almost one year to emit all registers,and another year to play sufficiently all scales.I think we should start playing it in early teens.By the way,flute embouchure has nothing to do with that for clarinet.In other words,it does not do any contribution to improving clarinet embouchure.
Many people in this BBS says brass playing does not effect badly clarinet embouchure.But their brass means big brasses with big mouthpieces such as euphonium. I think small mouthpiece brass such as trumpet will do harm.My brother played trumpet and I observed he needed very much effort to 'make' trumpet embouchure during his first 6 months.

Doubling makes your opportunity doubled.But playing more than 2 instruments is not recommended,since practice time of each instrument is dilluted and you cannot go beyond mediocrity level.For fun only? That is another matter.

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