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This is slowly bringing back a few memories.  Eb clarinet was soprano clarinet ?  Bb was standard, and the Tenor is pitched to Bb ?

Assuming your fingers were long, still,  How did you have the lung capacity, and maneuverability on a brass instrument THAT large to play it with the same "agility" as the alto sax ?  I can't play tenor with the same agility as I can play sop, alto, and flute.  Yet given the tubing and strength required for bari... HOW can you ?  That's amazing to me.

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

Yeah,  you know what my school supplied me with ?

Real fiberglass instruments !  None of the cheap wood crap.

I was the only person in the orchestra who could be found floating in the lake on his musical instrument.  (fiberglass string bass), was more fun than a sunfish or sailfish.. could hold more beer..

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

DING DING DING....duck falls from ceiling, sirens go off.....


You've won !  The word is "Privately"..

Noone likes being torn apart in a room where the whole world can read the content. (well at least that's how it was last year, probably changed in the past year), but still, the objective is to help ONE particular person requesting opinions. A critique SHOULD be constructive for the person who's requesting it, and NOTHING more. Yet it'd be best to allow the person who's received the critique the option of posting it themselves publically, assuming they feel comfortable doing so.. Sure some feel "What you told her can also help me", but often at the expense of the recipient of the critique, that more than not turns out to be a person who listed their material in "C",  and can't handle criticism, or mistook the word CRitique, for "tell me how fabulous it was on a scale of 9.5-10++++++++. There should be no arrogance in the delivery, or no showing off as in "Look how sophisticated my knowledge of music is, I was able to discern your 578th note was off by less than one cent." It's not a public display.. Since few know how to Critique, and few can except the honest critique, there's too much margin for mess up, and ugliness in this type process when it's aired publically.

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I honestly don't know how I did it. but I was always playing alto sax solos and usually very quick ones...lots of 8th and 16th notes with the bari. Now keep in mind this was many many years ago, and no matter what I did now I'd never get my dexterity back to what it was- not even fractionally. Also, after switching to bari, I quit playing alto and, I just picked up the tenor a couple of months ago and haven't played much. I just know that I played with the speed an agility that MOST alto players did. Of course there will always be better and faster, thats just a given. I'm sure if at the time I had picked the alto back up, I could have smoked myself on the bari, but I never did. I just surpassed many of my peers who played alto and tenor...there was only one person who could beat me on speed with her tenor against my bari - she was 5'3", and a better typist and piano player...but just barely . The big thing was running scales - all of them up and down and pushing to get faster - the toughest was the chromatic scale spanning 2 octaves. we used to have contests and time each other...hows that for boredom!! But it also increased our speed. I am doing the same thing with the piano right now pushing for more speed - then come time to play the agility improves.

Well yes, people who don't want serious critiques to be publicly viewed could mention at the bottom of the song description "please send all critiques to me by PM".  Just keep the song a "J" for everybody else.

We can't be.  I was lightening fast on keyboards, now I'm slow oaffy, and arthritic...We can't hang onto certain stuff indefineately.  In playing fast and hard, I injured myself... Dancers hurt their feet being on pointe for many many years, and musicians hurt their hands in time depending on what they were doing... Some are lucky enough genetically to keep their dexterity until late years, but even if they have it,  they end up falling out've a palm tree and cracking their head... So eventually, we slow down..

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Steve your comment about the string bass just has me rolling!! As for the clarinets, I dont know all the classifications of clarinets, I just know the E-flat soprano was the really high one, B b was standard, there was also an alto clarinet, I bass and the contrabass - I played the coiled one...and I believe it was Bb...I was just looking up clarinets - I guess there was also an Octocontrabass Clarinet made - but only 1 Bb and 3 Eb...bet those are worth a lot these days!! There were more catagories in there but my ADHD Brain didn't feel like sorting it out at the moment so I just got the parts I was able to skim over .

hmmmmmm We kind of took a turn off-topic...

Yeah,  when my brain cell has the condo to himself all weekend, and isn't getting enough oxygen, I tend to drift..

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".