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Author: Bartmann
Date: 2007-08-07 17:20
Hello all,
Yesterday I was practicing some music by Carlos Nakai. He transcribed music for native american flute to concert (silver) flute. The key is either E Major or C# minor. When I play this on the flute it sounds great, very alien sounding for the concert flute, yet very Native American sounding with arpeggios and sustained tonic notes.
When I play the same thing on clarinet it just sounds bad. First I tried playing it as concert E Major/C# minor; that didn't sound good. Then I transposed it to F# Major/D# minor for my Bb clarinet, and it still sounded bad.
Because Native American flute music has long sustained notes with alot of vibrato, these same sustained notes on a clarinet sound very pale. Crescendo and dimenuendo on the note added something, but not enough. In comparison to a long tone on a flute with vibrato and dynamic possibilities, a long tone on a clarinet has only dynamic possibilites.
Conversely I was playing something Jazzy, Cool Yule, (don't ask why I was playing Chirstmas music in August) but when I played that on the flute it didn't have the same spunk.
But most other music I play seems to work equally well on the flute or clarinet.
Are there other times when music you played on one instrument sounds great and on the other, it sounds bad?
Take care,
Bartmann
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Author: clarinets1
Date: 2007-10-08 21:23
my mom can relate to this phenomenon.
when i was younger, i would play the fiddle lines from "the Devil Went Down to Georgia" on every single instrument i had at the time: clarinet, saxophone, flute, and a lousy little keyboard. it was so good of her to put up with it!
;)
JK
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