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Re: Clarinet Hating

Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2011-03-23 14:34

You have completely destroyed all attempts at moderation and good will I had started! [mad]

I'll take it you're pulling our leg though you have every right and justification to prefer the clarinet. [frown]

Furthermore, your assertions about the clarinet superseding the oboe are just as ridiculous and false as the converse claims. [tongue]

For my part, the oboe is nowhere near as hard to play nor make reeds for as people make it.... and I have heard pro. clarinets sounding just as shrill out of tune as any oboe AND single reed players complain about bad reeds in their Rico or Van Doren boxes as much as any oboist.

Trust me, I definitely don't want my oboe to sound like the beer-bottle blow or tire-screech of a clarinet!

Thank god some clarinet players also seek the best sound particular to their instrument just like some oboists seek the best sound of their instruments - neither trying to sound like each other or the flute or anything.

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

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