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Author: kfrank1
Date: 2008-03-14 01:50
I will be playing in this musical at the end of this month. The director found an accordian player who has also played Oliver on clarinet and bass clarinet. I got the following instrumentation from bpimental's site:
1: Piccolo, flute
2: Oboe, English horn
3: Clarinet, bass clarinet
4: Bassoon
The director is considering having the accordian player look at the reed 1 book and conductor's score to extract an accordian part. I think this is because I told him that I played reed 2 in last year's musical assuming that he would be able to find a reed 1 player. Anyway he asked me what I thought about this.
I am thinking it may be better for me to play reed 1 and the other guy reed 3, and then cover any other parts as necessary.
If I take reed 1 I will probably just play flute and not piccolo. Does anyone know whether reed 1 is mainly piccolo, or flute? Also, how do you think we could cover the remaining reed 2 and 4 parts? I play saxes, clarinet, bass clarinet, and flute. I have a piccolo but it's not really playable. Thanks.
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Author: davyd
Date: 2008-03-14 02:09
You don't say what your budget, space, and volume limitations are, so it's a bit hard to offer advice, but here goes.
The genuine oboe & EH would of course be best on R2, but if you must use an accordion, put it on R2; the player will have to transpose the EH parts, but can use another accordion stop/patch/setting/whatever it's called to get a different tone color. Meanwhile, using only the flute should work for R1.
It shouldn't be hard to find a clarinet/bass clarinet player for R3. If no bassoonist is available, a cellist could cover R4.
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Author: kfrank1
Date: 2008-03-16 07:44
Actually the accordian player also plays clarinet and bass clarinet and has played the R3 part before. There are only the two of us to cover the parts. There are no space or volume limitations.
So right now it looks like R1 and R3 are covered, with R2 and R4 being covered as needed. Or maybe as you say, have him on R2 (maybe playing clarinet if he can transpose), and cover R3 and R4 as necessary. Someone also mentioned that having accordian on R4 could work quite well.
Do you think that having us play R1 and R2 would be better than R1 and R3? I'm thinking the harmonies may sound strange with R1 and R3 as opposed to R1 and R2.
Post Edited (2008-03-16 07:49)
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Author: timw
Date: 2009-04-12 16:58
I played Oliver this year. I played Clarinet/Bass Clarinet and the other reed played flute only. We did fine and nothing seemed missing.
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