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Re: Clarinet Hating

Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2011-03-22 15:59

So as not to hijack the Thread, I'll delete this stuff from the other one.....

Actually, we like to trash the clarinet a lot in this branch of the Woodwind.org, but I must confess that it really is a very worthy instrument. I only played it a very little bit in university: it feels much better under the fingers than the oboe does - but it feels wrong to me in the throat and lungs.

I heard some with a flute in French Samba (or Rumba?) and it really sounds fantastic. You can't do Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue on an oboe even with an open ring system, the sound is just wrong. I love the clarinet in its place: Klezmer and such. Enesco's Romainan Rhapsodys are the perfect example of correct use of both Clarinet and Oboe: he puts them both out in the open and gives them exactly the right folkloric mood to suit the sounds.

No offense, we love you, dear clarinet players..... but the OBOE RULES (and Albrecht Mayer is the KING)!
=> and I repeat..... making reeds is not THAT big an ordeal!!! To me, its a joy.

Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music

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