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Author: janlynn
Date: 2012-03-14 12:07
what I learned in Wind Symphony last night....READ carefully before taking your part. Just b/c the 1st and 2nd parts are taken doesnt mean the next one is automatically 3rd. Somehow I got an Alto Clarinet part and didnt realize it until I started getting funny looks LOL It was actually pretty funny. I was looking at the director with a look of - what the ???? and he was looking at me with a look of What the???? I'm thinking I KNOW i'm playing the right notes but it doesnt SOUND right. LOL
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Author: davyd
Date: 2012-03-14 19:40
Funny once in a while, and for a few measures, yes.
At band recently, the alto sax player had also brought his soprano sax. The Holst F major suite has parts for both. We went all the way thru Song Of The Blacksmith before he noticed what had been immediately evident to everyone within earshot: that he was playing the alto part on soprano. Didn't the parallel 5ths tip him off? Apparently not. (This is in addition to many players making some of the many counting errors that are all too easy to make in this piece.) Painful.
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Author: ttay1122
Date: 2012-03-14 21:46
That Holst 3rd movement could be disorienting for the play with all its upbeats and what not. It is easy to avoid this problem. Check the corners and you usually know what part you're playing (;
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Author: Clarinetero
Date: 2012-03-15 05:32
Jajajajjajaa that happened to me last week. We were playing a arrangement of Leroy's Buglars Holiday in my university wind symphony and I was playing the Alto Clarinet part in the Bass Clarinet.
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Author: janlynn
Date: 2012-03-15 13:49
heres what happened....we dont get original parts....the director has a student copy the music and many times the part numbers and sometimes key sig get cut off....
all it said was a light "to" for alto and Clarinet (so light i didnt even notice the "to" ....it was behind the 1st and 2nd parts so I thought it was the 3rd part.
we all got a good laugh tho. I play with an amazing group who are serious musicians but are relaxed and forgiving and consider this to be our family.
But I will be SURE to have the right part from now on.
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Author: kimber
Date: 2012-03-15 17:10
Always gets me when during rehearsal when the conductor starts in the middle of the piece when that song swaps between instruments and I have to look back frantically to see which instrument those measures are being played on!
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Author: janlynn
Date: 2012-03-15 17:30
No sir I did not. ha ha......I think that would had been worse than actually playing the alto part.
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2012-03-16 00:01
Why not? :-) it would have been fun reading all as bass clef and transposing up a tone
Peter Cigleris
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2012-03-16 14:49
I wonder whether there's an orchestra clarinet player alive who's never failed to notice a direction to change from one key of clarinet to another. In high school, I only owned a clarinet in Bb, so whenever the score said to use clarinet in A, I needed to transpose. I would love to have a good reed for every time I wasn't paying enough attention and embarrassed myself by coming in off-pitch.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
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Author: Hank Lehrer
Date: 2012-03-16 20:57
I have, on occasion, when doing a show and playing something like Reed IV or V which could call for clarinet, tenor, and bari sax (maybe even soprano or tenor) have forgotten that I had changed instrument. It's usually using a clarinet fingering on sax that tips me off. Yikes!
In Chicago, my book called for clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, tenor sax, and bari sax. Not only were the fingering changes quick mentally but having the correct playing position was also a challenge.
But davyd, many times when a show calls for 5 reeds and the company hires only 3 players, open 5th and weird harmonics are quite common.
HRL
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